Completing UML Model of Component-Based System with Middleware for Performance Evaluation

Abstract

Abstract. To free analysts from knowing about the internal details of middleware when evaluating the performance of component-based system (CBS), this paper proposes a framework to automatically integrate middleware component interactions and their performance attributes to application Unified Model Language (UML) model. The framework defines a general sub-model template library of middleware, a middleware usage description file, and an approach to compositing application-specific sub-model instances and application UML models. The process is illustrated by a case study.