Software architecture: perspectives on an emerging discipline
Software architecture: perspectives on an emerging discipline
Design and use of software architectures: adopting and evolving a product-line approach
Design and use of software architectures: adopting and evolving a product-line approach
Component-based software engineering: putting the pieces together
Component-based software engineering: putting the pieces together
Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming
Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming
Essential COM
Components for embedded software: the PECOS approach
CASES '02 Proceedings of the 2002 international conference on Compilers, architecture, and synthesis for embedded systems
Software Architecture in Practice
Software Architecture in Practice
Using Components to Increase Maintainability in a Large Telecommunication System
APSEC '02 Proceedings of the Ninth Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference
The Modular Structure of Complex Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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This chapter presents a case study from a global company developing a new generation of programmable controllers to replace several existing products. The system needs to incorporate support for a large number of I/O systems, network types, and communication protocols. To leverage its global development resources and the competency of different development centers, the company decided to adopt a component-based software architecture that allows I/O and communication functions to be realized by independently developed components. The architecture incorporates a subset of a standard component model. The process of redesigning the software architecture is presented, along with the experiences made during and after the project. An analysis of these experiences shows that the component-based architecture effectively supports distributed development and that the effort required for implementing certain functionality has been substantially reduced while, at the same time, the system’s performance and other run-time quality attributes have been kept on a satisfactory level.