Extending Architecture Description Languages With Exchangeable Component Behavior Languages

Abstract

Architecture description languages (ADLs) encapsulate domain concerns in components. Most ADLs enforce domain experts to use general purpose programming languages (GPLs) or an especially designed, fixed component behavior language. Domain-specific languages (DSLs), on the other hand, aim to reduce the conceptual gap between problem domain challenges and GPL solutions. Current ADLs focus on software engineering and disregard integration of domain-specific component behavior languages. We combine results from DSL-based software language engineering with component & connector ADLs to present a concept for the non-invasive and exchangeable integration of both. The concept is realized with the MontiArcAutomaton component & connector ADL. This liberates domain experts from using GPLs and facilitates their contribution.

Language Engineering with the GEMOC Studio

“…During the second part of the tutorial, the participants will develop a simplified version of the MontiArc component & connector ADL. The ADL is tailored for designing component-based distributed interactive systems that reliy on state-based models to describe component behavior [5]. During the hands-on session, participants will use the GEMOC Studio to develop a simplified version of MontiArc, including syntax and semantics, and deploy it in the modeling workbench to edit, execute, animate and debug conforming models.…”