Towards architectural connectors for UML

  • Authors:
  • Fernando Orejas;Sonia Pérez

  • Affiliations:
  • Departament LSI, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain;Departament LSI, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Formal Methods in Software and Systems Modeling
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The notion of architectural connector was developed by Allen and Garland [1] as an important concept for the design of software architectures. In this paper, based on previous work introducing a generic approach for the definition of component-based concepts, we study how architectural connectors and components can be defined for class and sequence diagrams as a first step for applying this approach to full UML. In particular, the case of sequence diagrams is studied with some detail. A case-study of a lift system is used to illustrate these ideas.