Using style to understand descriptions of software architecture
SIGSOFT '93 Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Specification and Analysis of System Architecture Using Rapide
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on software architecture
A formal basis for architectural connection
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Executable connectors: towards reusable design elements
ESEC '97/FSE-5 Proceedings of the 6th European SOFTWARE ENGINEERING conference held jointly with the 5th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
A Classification and Comparison Framework for Software Architecture Description Languages
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Towards a taxonomy of software connectors
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Software engineering
Distributed systems (3rd ed.): concepts and design
Distributed systems (3rd ed.): concepts and design
ICSE '93 Selected papers from the Workshop on Studies of Software Design
A Compositional Approach for Constructing Connectors
WICSA '01 Proceedings of the Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture
Abstractions and Implementations forArchitectural Connections
ICCDS '96 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Configurable Distributed Systems
Procedure Calls Are the Assembly Language of Software Interconnection: Connectors Deserve First-Class Status
Systematic Development of Trustworthy Component Systems
FM '09 Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress on Formal Methods
Conformance notions for the coordination of interaction components
Science of Computer Programming
Two ways of implementing software connections among distributed components
OTM'05 Proceedings of the 2005 OTM Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: CoopIS, COA, and ODBASE - Volume Part II
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In recent software developments, applications are made up of a collection of reusable software entities (components) and mechanisms that permit their interaction (connectors). These latter mechanisms have many forms. On the one hand, industrial approaches use simple connectors that are mainly point-to-point connections.On the other hand, academic approaches, like Architecture Description Languages (ADL), recognize complex connectors as first class design entities.However, these concepts are restricted to the architectural level since they have almost no implementation. The current application developments use simple connectors, and high level specifications are under exploited. In this article, we propose a means to fill the gap between connector specification and implementation. For a better reuse of design effort, and to avoid using only simple connectors when realizing applications, we propose to define connectors as complex communication and coordination abstractions and to implement them as a family of generators. We illustrate the development and use of such generators through a full example.