UML Support for Designing Software Systems as a Composition of Design Patterns
«UML» '01 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on The Unified Modeling Language, Modeling Languages, Concepts, and Tools
TOOLS '00 Proceedings of the Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems (TOOLS 34'00)
POD: A Composition Environment for Pattern-Oriented Design
TOOLS '00 Proceedings of the Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems (TOOLS 34'00)
Conquering Fine-Grained Blends of Design Patterns
ICSR '08 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Software Reuse: High Confidence Software Reuse in Large Systems
(Behavioural) design patterns as composition operators
CBSE'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Component-Based Software Engineering
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Object-oriented software architectures, such as design patterns and frameworks, have found extensive use in software industry. Their implementation in traditional object-oriented programming languages, however, is often difficult, since no support for the explicit specification of software architectures is provided. In this paper, we develop the notion of architectural fragments, i.e. reusable architectural specifications that describe a design pattern or a framework architecture. An architectural fragment describes the structure of an architecture in terms of its components (roles), the architecture-specific behaviour of the components and the architecture-specific interaction between the components. Fragments can be composed with each other and with reusable components. To illustrate the use of fragments, we describe the role and architecture language constructs in the layered object model (LayOM) and present examples.