An application framework is a collection of classes implementing the shared architecture of a family of applications. It is shown how the specialization interface ("hot spots...
Increasingly, systems are composed from independently developed parts, and mechanisms that allow those parts to interact (connectors). In many situations, specialized forms of int...
During the past decade, object-orientation (OO) has become the dominant software development methodology, accompanied by a number of modeling notations, programming languages, and...
Software architecture research focuses on models of software architectures as specified in architecture description languages (ADLs). As research progresses in specific areas of s...