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ESEC 1997, SIGSOFT FSE 1997: Software Engineering — ESEC/FSE'97 pp 94–110Cite as

Making design patterns explicit in FACE

A framework adaptive composition environment

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Tools incorporating design patterns combine the advantage of having a high-abstraction level of describing a system and the possibility of coupling these abstractions to some underlying implementation. Still, all current tools are based on generating source code in which the design patterns become implicit. After that, further extension and adaptation of the software is needed but this can no longer be supported at the same level of abstraction. This paper presents FACE, an environment based on an explicit representation of design patterns, sustaining an incremental development style without abandoning the higher-level design pattern abstraction. A visual composition tool for FACE has been developed in the Self programming language.

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  1. Baan Labs, Groot Zonneoord, PO Box 250, NL-6710, BG Ede, The Netherlands

    Theo Dirk Meijler, Serge Demeyer & Robert Engel

  2. Institut für Informatik (IAM), Universität Bern, Neubrückstrasse 10, CH-3012, Berne, Switzerland

    Theo Dirk Meijler, Serge Demeyer & Robert Engel

  3. Department of Computer Science, Washington University, Campus Box 1045, 63130, St. Louis, MO, USA

    Theo Dirk Meijler, Serge Demeyer & Robert Engel

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Meijler, T.D., Demeyer, S., Engel, R. (1997). Making design patterns explicit in FACE. In: Jazayeri, M., Schauer, H. (eds) Software Engineering — ESEC/FSE'97. ESEC SIGSOFT FSE 1997 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1301. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63531-9_9

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