Reflections on architectural connection: seven issues on aspects and ADLs

  • Authors:

  • Thaís Batista;Christina Chavez;Alessandro Garcia;Awais Rashid;Cláudio Sant'Anna;Uirá Kulesza;Fernando Castor Filho

  • Affiliations:

  • Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil;Federal University of Bahia, Brazil;Lancaster University, United Kingdom;Lancaster University, United Kingdom;Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio, Brazil;Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio, Brazil;University of Campinas, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Early aspects at ICSE
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Abstractions to express architectural connection play a central role in architecture design, especially in Architecture Description Languages (ADLs). With the emergence of aspect-oriented software development (AOSD), there is a need to understand the adequacy of ADLs' conventional connection abstractions to capture the crosscutting nature of architectural concerns. This paper reflects on seven issues pertaining to the interplay of crosscutting concerns and architectural connection abstractions. We review and assess the design of existing aspect-oriented (AO) and non-AO ADLs with respect to these issues. A case study is used to illustrate our viewpoints, claims, and proposals.