First-Class Connectors to Support Systematic Construction of Hierarchical Software Architecture.

Abstract

To provide hierarchical description from different software architectural view points we need more than one abstraction hierarchy and connection mechanisms to support the interactions among components. Also, these mechanisms will support the refinement and traceability of architectural elements through the different levels of each hierarchy. Current methods and tools provide poor support for the challenge posed by developing system using hierarchical description. This paper describes an architecture-centric approach allowing the user to describe the logical architecture view where a physical architecture view is generated automatically for all application instances of the logical architecture.

The analysis of architectural languages for the needs of practitioners

“…Release Years SARA 53 1986 Artek, 76 Acme, 35,36 C2SADL, 41 Darwin, 11,12 UniCon, 77 SADL (Structure) 78 1994-1997 ADML, 79 Koala, 16 Olan, 80,81 π-space, 82 AEmilia, 83,84 Zeta, 85 ComUnity, 86,87 DAOP-ADL, 88 Korrigan, 89 AADL, 14,15 Mae, 90 π-ADL, 91 Service-ADL 92 2000-2004 ADLARS, 93 Clara, 60 East-ADL, 32 π-net ADL, 17 SafArchie, 94 Secure X-ADL, 34 AspectualAcme, 37 Backbone, 95 EAADL, 96 Prisma, 28,97 Ambient-Prisma, 29,30 ALI, 98,99 WADL, 100 DEMO, 101 DiaSpec, 102 Dedal, 103 EADL, 104,105 AO-ADL, 51 MontiArc, 104,105 C3, 106 DPD, 107 Primitive-C 57 2005-2012…”

MMSA: Metamodel Multimedia Software Architecture

“…Component Connector Configuration (C3) [1] is an approach based on software architectures. It makes it possible to describe a view of logical architecture in order to automatically generate physical architecture for all the application instances.…”

“…Architecture Description Language (ADL) can be classified in three different categories [1]: ADL without connectors, ADL with a preset set of connectors, and ADL with explicit types of connectors. In the last case, the ADL provides connectors as first-order elements of the language such as: Wright [2,3], ACME C2 [4], xADL [5], AADL [6], and so forth.…”

An Adaptation Approach for Component-Based Software Architecture

“…The ADL can be classified in three different categories [1]: ADL without connectors, ADL with a preset set of connectors, and ADL with explicit types of connectors. In the last case, the ADL provides connectors as first order elements of the language such as: Wright [4], [25], ACME C2 [19], xADL [17], AADL [5], etc.…”

“…C3 (Component Connector Configuration) [1] is an approach based on software architectures. It makes it possible to describe a view of logical architecture in order to automatically generate physical architecture for all the application instances.…”