ALI: An Extensible Architecture Description Language for Industrial Applications

While Architecture Description Languages (ADLs) have gained wide acceptance in the research community as a means of describing system designs, the uptake in industry has been slower than might have been expected. A contributory cause may be the perceived lack of flexibility and, as yet, the limited tool support. This paper describes ALI, a new ADL that aims to address these deficiencies by providing a rich, extensible and flexible syntax for describing component interface types and the use of patterns and meta-information. These enhanced capabilities are intended to encourage more widespread industrial usage.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ECBS
• Authors: Rabih Bashroush, Ivor T. A. Spence, Peter Kilpatrick, T. John Brown, Wasif Gilani, Mathias Fritzsche
• Keywords: Architecture Description Languages, ECBS 2008, Hardware, Limited Tool Support, Paper Describes Ali