ABC/ADL: An ADL Supporting Component Composition

Mei, Hong; Feng, Chen; Wang, Qianxiang; Feng, Yansong

doi:10.1007/3-540-36103-0_6

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“…New components and connectors are created if necessary; different views (including type view, instance view and process view) may also be created. The relationships between the requirement specifications and SA models are set up in this phase [2,7] . Since reuse is emphasized in ABC method, the architects should take into account reusable components and connectors during the design.…”

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A software architecture centric engineering approach for Internetware

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As a new software paradigm evolved by the Internet, Internetware brings many challenges for the traditional software development methods and techniques. Though architecture-based component composition (ABC) approach is originated in the traditional software paradigm, it supports the engineering of Internetware effectively due to its philosophy, rationales and mechanisms. ABC has three major contributions to the engineering of Internetware in detail. First, the feature oriented domain modeling method can structure the "disordered" "software entities" to "ordered Internetware" bottom-up in the problem space. Second, the architecture centric design and analysis method can support the development of self-adaptive Internetware. Third, the component operating platform is a reflective and self-adaptive middleware that not only provides Internetware with a powerful and flexible runtime infrastructure but also enables the self-adaptation of the structure and individual entities of Internetware.The Internet development brings new challenges to the information technology which requires innovation of the present technologies, meanwhile, it produces multi-hotspot fields about information technology research and practice. For example, the grid management discusses the future application and construction model for the network systems from the perspective of resource sharing and management; from the perspective of humancomputer interaction, the pervasive computing discusses how future network applications will be used and operated ubiquitously; the service computing emphasizes the idea of "software as a service" and proposes a new software paradigm that pays special attention to the coordination and dynamism of services; the model-driven development is based on domain-specific code generation and focuses on middleware-based development methods and techniques. Almost all of the work can be considered as attempts to review, rethink and evolve the information technology from some new perspectives. Similarly, Internetware grounds itself in the open, dynamic and ever-changing Internet

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“…We adopt the SA model defined by ABC/ADL [8] (Figure 2) as a basic model for the SA centric self-adaptation because of the following reasons. Firstly, it defines all of the key and common elements of SA, including the components that encapsulate system's computing functionalities, connectors that enable interactions among components, a configuration that describes the topology of interacted components, and system-level constraints.…”

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A software architecture centric self-adaptation approach for Internetware

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Being one of the basic features of Internetware, self-adaptation means that the software system can monitor its runtime state and behavior and adjust them when necessary according to pre-defined policies. Focusing on the three fundamental issues of self-adaptation, including the scope, operability and trustworthiness, a software architecture (SA) centric approach for Internetware's self-adaptation is presented in this paper. All of the self-adaptive actions, i.e. monitoring, analyzing, planning and executing, are performed based on SA. In detail, runtime state and behavior of Internetware are represented and changed in the form of runtime software architecture. The knowledge for self-adaptation is captured, organized and reasoned in the form of SA so that automatic analysis and decision-making are achieved.Internetware, self-adaptation, software architecture, middleware

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“…At first sight, our definition of service components looks similar to the components defined in traditional ADLs given in [11][12][13][14], and they have some similar features indeed. However, compared with common components, service components are larger granularity that provide relatively integrated functionality and rely on a bigger data set.…”

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“…First of all, we are inspired by the research work on software architectures, especially the specification of different ADLs, such as Darwin [11], Wright [12,22], xADL [13], and ABC [14]. The elements defmed within them are the foundation of our describing, and the framework of our approach is benefit from them, too.…”

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“…However it is impossible to describe SOA sufficiently by the current popular UML-based approach [5][6][7] and BPEL [8,9] since UML is short of the support to describe some elements involved in software architecture and BPEL focuses on the specification of abstract or executive business processes but not on the description of functional units of system architecture. On the other hand, the existing ADLs (architecture definition languages) [10][11][12][13][14] cannot specify SOA very well in spite that we can benefit from the approaches based-on them.…”

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A Modeling Approach for Service-Oriented Architecture

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Cao

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IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

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Abstract. Specifying service-oriented system, which is a new type of Enterprise Information System, is critical with the rapid development of Web Services. For the purpose, this paper presents an approach to model ServiceOriented Architecture (SOA). We do not exclude the traditional opinions of software architecture description as the current specification approaches; on the contrary, some similar conceptions, such as service components and connectors are defined in this paper. For architectural reuse, the notion of composite service components is specified to model services composition and that of composite connectors is defined to abstract the complex communication protocols. Within the context of the Travel Reservation System (TRS), we demonstrate the usage and practicability of our approach based-on Web Services.

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ABC/ADL: An ADL Supporting Component Composition

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