The ArchMapper Approach to Architectural Conformance Checks: An Eclipse-based Tool for Style-oriented Architecture to Code Mappings

The ArchMapper approach allows performing two activities in the software development process efficiently: checking the conformance of the code to the intended architecture as specified by an architectural description, and generating code skeletons and architecture-related configuration files from the architectural description. Both directions exploit information based on the architectural style of the software system. An architectural style may be as simple as the style of layered architectures, or it may correspond to a specific middleware platform, which allows more specific analyses and generation. We have applied the approach to the style of the Spring MVC framework, where several architectural properties can be checked, and the Spring configuration file for the application may be automatically generated from the architectural description.