Object oriented programming: an evolutionary approach
Object oriented programming: an evolutionary approach
Structural active object systems for simulation
OOPSLA '93 Proceedings of the eighth annual conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
Real-time object-oriented modeling
Real-time object-oriented modeling
Abstractions for Software Architecture and Tools to Support Them
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on software architecture
Architectural issues in software reuse: it's not just the functionality, it's the packaging
SSR '95 Proceedings of the 1995 Symposium on Software reusability
Object-oriented software composition
Object-oriented software composition
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We designed and implemented a prototype software development environment based on software component composition. Our software development environment, the Entity-Relationship Software Development Environment (ERSDE), uses extended entity-relationship diagrams (EERDs) as templates of executable programs.An EERD represents the component types and the relationship types among them within an application domain. The graphical editor of the ERSDE uses an EERD as a menu in constructing application software.An EERD used as a menu can enforce legitimate patterns of relationships among software components, in addition to providing an intuitive view of available components and possible relationships among them.Furthermore, as the ERSDE uses structural active objects as the components of a program, we can obtain an executable program if those components are instantiated and interconnected as dictated by an EERD. Two experiments conducted confirmed the effectiveness of our approach.