Abstract: The present invention pertains to a software component-based architecture for applications with execution platform affording access to the metaprogram level, and in particular for developing and executing man-machine interfaces, and it is characterized in that it is an architecture with components explicitly defining all the characteristics of the components, practically without involving the code defining these components, managing the components during their execution, and providing them with technical services, and that it comprises a generic container accommodating on the one hand components whose definition ensues from the specifications of the provisions of the application to be carried out and depends on the domain of use of the application, this container accommodating on the other hand technical services provided.

Abstract: The structuring library of the invention is based on components for developing man-machine interfaces for command and control information systems comprising computer hardware, an operating system, and an execution environment for the development platform, and this library comprises, between the execution environment and the specific man-machine interface application, a technical layer grouping together an arrangement of non-specialized technical components in the application domain of said systems, each dedicated to an elementary task, their assembly providing the nonfunctional services to the application, and an application domain layer grouping together an arrangement of software components of the application domain, their assembly providing the functional services to the application, the whole serving as a basis for the MMI application considered.