Procedure Calls Are the Assembly Language of Software Interconnection: Connectors Deserve First-Class Status

Software designers compose systems from components written in some prolanguage. They regularly describe systems using abstract patterns and sophisticated relations among components. However, the configuration tools at their disposal restrict them to composition mechanisms directly supported by the programming language. To remedy this lack of expressiveness, we must elevate the relations among components to first-class entities of the entitled to their own specifications and abstractions.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1993
• Where: ICSE
• Authors: Mary Shaw
• Keywords: Abstract Patterns, Designers Compose Systems, ICSE 1993, Software Engineering, Sophisticated Relations