JCMP: Linking Architecture with Component Building

Approaches to enforcing communication integrity in the implementation, exemplified by ArchJava, consider only architectural constraints, without taking into account the late integration of pre-built components into the architecture. This may hinder the practice of architecture in the common component building. In this paper, we present an approach to supporting the integration of pre-built components in the context of the architectural constraints. This approach is described in terms of a novel design pattern, an architectural description language (ADL) JCMPL and a toolset JCMP. The language and toolset are designed based on the pattern to dynamically link the architectural constraints with the component building. To achieve this goal, an important step is to automatically translate the connector specification defined in the architecture into the connector implementation, which can serve as glue codes to connect two pre-built components together by transferring the methods invocation ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: APSEC
• Authors: Guoqing Xu, Zongyuan Yang, Haitao Huang
• Keywords: APSEC 2004, Architectural Constraints, Component Building, Pre-built Components, Software Engineering