xSADL: An Architecture Description Language to Specify Component-Based Systems

Authors:
Shifeng Zhang;Steve Goddard
Affiliations:
University of Nebraska-Lincoln;University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Venue:
ITCC '05 Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC'05) - Volume II - Volume 02
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Software Architecture (SA) provides a formal basis to describe and analyze a software system as a collection of components and their interactions (connectors). However, the current understanding and specification for a connector are still insufficient. Furthermore, there still exists a gap between architecture design and component-based implementation. This paper attempts to tackle these problems by providing an Architecture Description Language (ADL), xSADL. In the specification of a connector, xSADL can help designers to deal with two kinds of architectural mismatches: behavior mismatch and message mismatch. xSADL is also supported by a GUI-based CASE tool. To help transform the architecture design by xSADL to a component-based software implementation, a component framework, 3CoFramework, is also introduced. xSADL and 3CoFramework complement each other and construct an architecture-based component development environment.