Modeling and validation of service-oriented architectures: application vs. style

Most applications developed today rely on a given middleware platform which governs the interaction between components, the access to resources, etc. To decide, which platform is suitable for a given application (or more generally, to understand the interaction between application and platform), we propose UML models of both the architectural style of the platform and the application scenario. Based on a formal interpretation of these as graphs and graph transformation systems, we are able to validate the consistency between platform and application. We exemplify the approach for platforms realizing the service-oriented architectural style and a supply chain management system as application scenario. Besides, we demonstrate the potential of model checking for graph transformation systems for answering the above consistency question. Categories and Subject Descriptors D.2.2 [Software Engineering]: Design Tools and Techniques; D.2.11 [Software Engineering]: Software Architectures Genera...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: SIGSOFT
• Authors: Luciano Baresi, Reiko Heckel, Sebastian Thöne, Dániel Varró
• Keywords: Application Scenario, Architectural Style, Graph Transformation Systems, SIGSOFT 2003, Software Engineering