Formal Framework for Architectural and Integration Styles

摘要

Component interoperability has become an important concern as industry and government migrate legacy systems, integrate COTS products, and assemble modules from disparate sources into a single application. Interoperability problems, their complexity and their resolution, can mean the difference between the successful, seamless integration of software and the complete failure of a composite system. Emerging research has shown that interoperability problems can be traced to differences in the software architectures of the components and the integrated application environment. Current technology does not fully identify what must be made explicit about software architecture to add in the prediction of interoperability problems. The overall goat of our research is to define and build this technology. We focus on three technical areas: analysis process, modeling, and case studies. The results of the research to date are the categorization of architecture characteristics, the definition of a set of common conflicts, and the initial development of a theory of interoperability.