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Practical Connector Patterns for Designing Component Frameworks  

민현기 (숭실대학교 컴퓨터학과)
김수동 (숭실대학교 컴퓨터학부)
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Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications / v.31, no.1, 2004 , pp. 43-53 More about this Journal
Abstract
Component-based development(CBD) has acquired a substantial acceptance in both academia and industry as an effective inter-organizational reuse technology. A component framework in product line engineering(PLE) which consists of related components, connectors and their semantics has a greater potential for reusability than components. In frameworks, components are glued with association, dependency and connections. Problems occur like affecting the implementation code of components when they are glued and replaced because the association and dependency relationships between COTS components which are acquired for application development do not match exactly. Especially, a connector may not only connect related components, but also mate partially-matched COTS components fit together. However, little has been studied to date about connectors that can be used practically. In this paper, we present a meta-model for connectors and show how a connector can be designed and implemented in practice. We propose five main patterns of connectors. Proposed major patterns Provide design guidelines for practical and efficient connector configuration based on component framework. And also, applying techniques and applied case studies of the major patterns show greatly increased applicability and reusability of the component without component modification.
Keywords
PLE; CBD; Connector; PLE; CBD; Software Architecture; Component Framework;
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