摘要:This paper presents the Adesso, a computational en-vironment for the development of scientific software.The Adesso environment leverages the reusable soft-ware component programming model to support thedevelopment and integration of components to sev-eral scientific programming platforms. The Adessosystem is based on an XML component database anda set of XML document transformation tools for theautomatic generation of component code, documen-tation and packaging. An authoring tool, built withthe help of the Adesso transformation system itself, isprovided to assist the user in the creation of compo-nents. The Adesso system has been used for the de-velopment of several image processing toolboxes andapplications. Some of them are presented brie.y inthis paper