Component-based systems usually use some form of ‘glue’ to link components together (for example, when using Unix processes as components, the glue is likely to be a shell script). Identify other...

Component-based systems usually use some form of ‘glue’ to link components together (for example, when using Unix processes as components, the glue is likely to be a shell script). Identify other forms of glue used with different forms of component, and how this varies when the components are: (a) executing on the same machine; (b) executing in a distributed environment.