Component oriented design

[NaN]

I think there is no need to have a base class for the components. We could have a bunch of concrete component "managers".

class ComponentManager
{
public:
template <class T>
shared_ptr<T> get(const Load<T> & loader);
private:
Manager<Texture> textures;
Manager<Model> models;
...
};

The component itself could be a simple struct. The loader class implements loading logics. Hmm... the concrete loaders will still have to implement a common interface.

The motivation for the component based aproach for me has been to get rid of the gigantic interfaces of car, cardynamics. I think the car doesn't have to know that it has got brakes, clutch and a transmission. The driver/input and head-up display could deal(communicate) with this components directly.