The software engineering community has introduced component and connector concepts to support architecture-based software descriptions. However, there still exists a gap in transi...
re connector is an abstraction capturing interactions among components. Apart from middleware independence, connectors provide additional services (e.g., adaptation, synchronizati...
Software architectures promote development focused on modular building blocks and their interconnections. Since architecture-level components often contain complex functionality, ...
Eric M. Dashofy, Nenad Medvidovic, Richard N. Tayl...
Component-oriented software development is becoming more and more important for the production of large-scale software applications. Today's systems are constructed by combin...
Large, complex and long-lived software need to be upgraded at runtime. Addition, removal and replacement of a software component are the elementary evolution operations that have ...