Specifying aspect-oriented architectures in AO-ADL

Architecture description languages (ADLs) are a well-accepted approach to software architecture representation. The majority of well-known ADLs are defined by means of components and connectors. Architectural connectors are mainly used to model interactions among components, specifying component com...

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Veröffentlicht in:Information and software technology Jg. 53; H. 11; S. 1165 - 1182
Hauptverfasser: Pinto, Mónica, Fuentes, Lidia, Troya, José María
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.11.2011
Elsevier Science Ltd
Schlagworte:
Architecture
Aspect-Oriented Software Development
Computer architecture
Computer programs
Connectors
Languages
Mathematical models
Metrics
Programming languages
Representations
Security
Semantics
Software
Software Architectures
Software Engineering
Studies
Aspect-Oriented Software Development
Metrics
Languages
Software Engineering
Software Architectures
ISSN:0950-5849, 1873-6025
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Zusammenfassung:Architecture description languages (ADLs) are a well-accepted approach to software architecture representation. The majority of well-known ADLs are defined by means of components and connectors. Architectural connectors are mainly used to model interactions among components, specifying component communication and coordination separately. However, there are other properties that cut across several components and also affect component interactions (e.g. security). It seems reasonable therefore to model how such crosscutting properties affect component interactions as part of connectors. Using an aspect-oriented approach, the AO-ADL architecture description language extends the classical connector semantics with enough expressiveness to model the influences of such crosscutting properties on component interactions (defined as ‘aspectual compositions’ in connectors). This paper describes the AO-ADL language putting special emphasis on the extended connectors used to specify aspectual and non-aspectual compositions between concrete components. The contributions of AO-ADL are validated using concern-oriented metrics available in the literature. The measured indicators show that using AO-ADL it is possible to specify more reusable and scalable software architectures.
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ISSN:0950-5849
1873-6025
DOI:10.1016/j.infsof.2011.04.003