Weaving Deployment Aspects into Domain-specific Models

pecific models increase the level of abstraction used to develop large-scale component-based systems. Model-driven development (MDD) approaches (e.g., ModelIntegrated Computing and Model-Driven Architecture) emphasize the use of models at all stages of system development. Decomposing problems using MDD approaches may result in a separation of the artifacts in a way that impedes comprehension. For example, a single concern (such as deployment of a distributed system) may crosscut different orthogonal activities (such as component specification, interaction, packaging and planning). To keep track of all entities associated with a component, and to ensure that the constraints for the system as a whole are not violated, a purely model-driven approach imposes extra effort, thereby negating some of the benefits of MDD. This paper provides three contributions to the study of applying aspect-oriented techniques to address the crosscutting challenges of model-driven component-based distributed ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: IJSEKE
• Authors: Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Aniruddha S. Gokhale, Yuehua Lin, Jing Zhang, Jeff Gray
• Keywords: Component-based Systems, Distributed System, IJSEKE 2006, Large-scale Component-based Systems