A heterogeneous approach for developing applications with FIWARE GEs

The European Commission funded FIWARE project aims to support the development of a European cloud, and a rich catalogue of generic components called Generic Enablers (GEs). However, the lack of an efficient approach and tool for developing applications using GEs hinders their adoption. This paper tries to fill this gap by proposing an approach based on a component model, along with its related tool, that allows heterogeneous composition of GEs and non-GE components. The approach is validated with a case study where a content delivery application is developed.