  Component based development idea was floated in a conference name "Mass
Produced Software Components" in 1968 [1]. Since then engineering and
scientific libraries are developed to reuse the previously developed functions.
This concept is now widely used in SW development as component based
development (CBD). Component-based software engineering (CBSE) is used to
develop/ assemble software from existing components [2]. Software developed
using components is called component ware [3]. This paper presents different
architectures of CBD such as ActiveX, common object request broker architecture
(CORBA), remote method invocation (RMI) and simple object access protocol
(SOAP). The overall objective of this paper is to support the practice of CBD
by comparing its advantages and disadvantages. This paper also evaluates object
oriented process model to adapt it for CBD.
