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Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Abstractions for Software Architecture and Tools to Support Them
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A formal basis for architectural connection
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A Metaobject Architecture for Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems: The FRIENDS Approach
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Composing crosscutting concerns using composition filters
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Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects
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Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques
Implementing Layered Designs with Mixin Layers
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A compositional formalization of connector wrappers
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
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DOA '01 Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications
An Extensible Binding Framework for Component-Based Middleware
EDOC '03 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Enterprise Distributed Object Computing
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An Open Framework for Dynamic Reconfiguration
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering
Compositional transformation of software connectors
Compositional transformation of software connectors
Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 2003 International Conference on Middleware
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SDSOA '07 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Systems Development in SOA Environments
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Connectors and connector wrappers explicitly specify the protocol of interaction among components and afford the reusable application of extra-functional behaviors, such as reliability policies. Ideally, these specifications can be used for more than just modeling and analysis. We are investigating how to use them in the design and implementation of the middleware substrate of a distributed system. This paper reports our experience elaborating connectors and connector wrappers as instantiations of a feature-oriented middleware framework called Theseus, which supports the design of asynchronous distributed applications. The results of this case study indicate that the relationship between specification features and implementation-level features is not one-to-one and that some specification features have complex, often subtle, manifestations in Theseus’ design. This work reports the lessons learned designing these strategies and suggests techniques for designing middleware frameworks and composition tools that more explicitly reify and expose the features specified by connectors and connector wrappers.