Towards the convergence between hypermedia authoring languages and architecture description languages

  • Authors:

  • Débora Christina Muchaluat-Saade;Luiz Fernando Gomes Soares

  • Affiliations:

  • Laboratório TeleMídia - Departamento de Informática - PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil;Laboratório TeleMídia - Departamento de Informática - PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • DocEng '01 Proceedings of the 2001 ACM Symposium on Document engineering
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This paper presents a detailed comparison between the structural elements and definitions provided by Hypermedia Authoring Languages and Architecture Description Languages (ADL). ADLs are formal languages that can be used for representing a software architecture. Although it may look trivial to make a direct correspondence between ADL and hypermedia structural entities, such as components to nodes and connectors to links, interesting differences can be identified when observing them more closely. Based on the comparison results, a structural meta-model that can be specialized for use in both domains is proposed. Furthermore, the paper also presents an example of how the meta-model can be used for describing hypermedia document structures, showing how some features found in ADLs can be applied to hypermedia authoring languages. Our final goal is to integrate the contributions of document engineering and software architecture engineering and take advantage of the advances of one area in the other one. The current paper is the first step towards this direction.