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Efficient exploration of service-oriented architectures using aspects

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Ingolf H. Krüger,

Michael MeisingerAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE '06: Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering

Pages 62 - 71

https://doi.org/10.1145/1134285.1134296

Published: 28 May 2006 Publication History

Abstract

An important step in the development of large-scale distributed, reactive systems is the design of architectures that effectively support the systems' purposes. Early prototypes help to decide upon the most effective architecture for a given situation. Questions to answer include the boundaries of components, communication topologies and of replication. It is desirable to evaluate and compare architectures for functionality and quality attributes before implementing or changing the whole system. Often, the effort required is prohibitive. In this paper we present an approach to efficiently create prototypes for service-oriented architectures using aspect-oriented programming techniques. We explain a procedure for transforming interaction based software specifications into AspectJ programs. We show how to map the same set of interaction scenarios to different candidate architectures. This significantly reduces the effort required to explore architectural alternatives. We explain and evaluate our approach using the Center TRACON Automation System as a running example.

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Efficient exploration of service-oriented architectures using aspects
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Requirements analysis
      2. Software implementation planning
        Software design techniques
    2. Software development process management
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

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ICSE '06: Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering

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ISBN:1595933751

DOI:10.1145/1134285

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