6. Indexing and Retrieval Mechanisms in CodeBroker

This and the following chapters describe the system development effort of the research. Two subsystems have been developed: CodeIndexer, which creates the component repository from existing Java programs and libraries, and CodeBroker, which assists Java programmers to locate and reuse components while creating new programs^6.1 (Figure 6.1).

Figure 6.1: The CodeIndexer and CodeBroker subsystems

After explaining the indexing and retrieval mechanisms used by CodeBroker, this chapter describes how to create a component repository that can be used by CodeBroker with CodeIndexer.