History of Component Technology
- Explores some of the key events of object-oriented programming and components in the previous 50 years in the greater context of general computing history.
- http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/co-tmline/

A Plea for Grey-Box Components
- Martin Buchi and Wolfgang Weck propose components which reveal part of their implementation.
- http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~leavens/FoCBS/buechi.html