Composing Software Components at Architectural Level

摘要

How to compose prefabricated components is a key issue in component-based reuse. In this paper, an architecture-based component composition approach is presented. In this solution, Software Architecture (SA) description is used as the blueprint and middleware technology as the runtime scaffold for component composition, using mapping rules and mini-tools to shorten the gap between design and implementation. Our approach presents an Architectural Description Language, which supports user-defined connectors and has an extensible framework, to specify software architectures. The architectural description can be mapped into source code or executable code by using some Object Request Broker conforming to CORBA standard.