The present invention generally is directed to a system, method and article of manufacture for generating a reusable query component. The reusable query component may include one or more query conditions and may be used to facilitate building a database query including the one or more query conditions. Reusable query components may also include reusable query subcomponents, each including one or more query conditions. The query subcomponents may be statically or dynamically linked to the reusable query component.