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In a traditional software architecture, control originates in components and flows to other components via connectors. The system’s control flow is fixed at design time, when components and their inter-connections are specified. Code generated from the design inherits this control flow, and consists of component code and glue code that tightly couples connected components. This means that code generated from a given software architecture is system-specific, and is therefore neither generic nor reusable. In this paper we describe an approach which allows separate reuse of component code and connector code, and thus making it possible to build architectures from pre-existing components and generic connectors. Furthermore, we show we can implement such architectures by generating control flow at run-time automatically.
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Lau, KK., Ukis, V. (2006). Automatic Control Flow Generation from Software Architectures. In: Löwe, W., Südholt, M. (eds) Software Composition. SC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4089. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11821946_21
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