Statecharts: A visual formalism for complex systems
Science of Computer Programming
Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming
Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming
The Vision of Autonomic Computing
Computer
Formalization of the Whole-Part Relationship in the Unified Modeling Language
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
On Formalization of the Whole-Part Relationship in the Unified Modeling Language
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
MDA Distilled
On the compositional properties of UML statechart diagrams
ROOM'00 Proceedings of the 2000 international conference on Rigorous Object-Oriented Methods
Controversies about the black and white diamonds
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Supporting the UML State Machine Diagrams at Runtime
ECMDA-FA '08 Proceedings of the 4th European conference on Model Driven Architecture: Foundations and Applications
Dynamic adaptive software components: the MOCAS approach
CSTST '08 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Soft computing as transdisciplinary science and technology
Composition management interfaces for a predictable assembly
SC'07 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Software composition
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When designing applications with Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) and more specifically with Stateful Session Beans, a major difficulty (or even an impossibility) is being able to properly transform business models and more precisely UML 2 models, into such component types, while including the expression of their mutual compositions. This contradicts with the spirit of the emerging Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) software engineering paradigm based on the definition of seamless model transformations. In this scope, this paper proposes and describes an appropriate Java library in order to increase the composition power of EJBs. The proposition includes a support for a broadcast communication mode (assimilated to “horizontal composition” in the paper) which is, a priori, incompatible with non reentrance, a key characteristic of EJBs. Besides, “vertical composition” is the counterpart of “horizontal compo-sition”. “Vertical composition” enables the consistent hierarchical combination of composite behaviors and compound behaviors, both being specified and implemented by means of UML 2 State Machine Diagrams.