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Mapping Architectural Concepts to UML-RT

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posted on 2006-08-01, 00:00 authored by Shang-Wen Cheng, David Garlan

Complex software systems require expressive notations for representing their software architectures. Two competing paths have emerged, one using a specialized notation for architecture--or architecture description language (ADL), the other using notations applied generally throughout design, such as UML. The latter has a number of benefits, including familiarity to developers, close mappings to implementations, and commercial tool support. However, it remains an open question how best to use object-oriented notations for architectural description and whether they are sufficiently expressive as currently defined. In this paper, we present a mapping between Acme, a notation designed for expressing architectures, and the UML Real-Time Profile--an object-oriented design notation. Specifically, we describe (a) how to map Acme descriptions to descriptions in the UML Real-Time Profile, and (b) the places where this mapping breaks down.

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© ACM, (2006). This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Communications of the ACM, Volume 49, Issue 8 (August 2006) http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1145287.1145311

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2006-08-01

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