The third party components that the system depends on carry their own licence agreements, but these generally follow free and open source requirements and are described in detail in the documentation.
We used the third-party component CodeMirror [28] as the editor, which is interconnected with our checking algorithm.
This extra level of control allows for a better and safer integration between an extensible system and the third-party components extending it.
While the ingestion engine is an internal component that is directly controlled by the data pipeline, the smart sensor can be considered a third party component that is programmed and managed externally.
The browser was always a second class citizen, a third party component – Opera by default in the early days, but freely replaced with a licensee's preferred option.
An interesting side note on this – Dropbox is actually using a paid, third party component called PSPDFKit for the viewer.
In addition, the reuse of third party components within the model is illustrated through the case study of a digital filtering system.
The success of software development using third party components highly depends on the ability to select a suitable component for the intended application.
Compared with the previous virtual EAST system based on VRML/Java3D [1] (Li et al., 2014), a new technology is being adopted to create a 3D visualization system based on HTML5 and WebGL, which runs without the need for plug-ins or third party components.
Specifically, ability to capture all of the relationships efficiently, documentation, developer community, licence for redistribution, cost, programmatic accessibility, maintainability and interactivity with other third party components were the requirements that influenced decision.
Unfortunately, developing components for maximum reusability and acquiring third party components invite many security related concerns.
