In this paper we show how software architectural styles can be used to guide object-oriented design. Design guidance is important as the initial phases of software design signiicantly impact software quality. We use two diierent architectural styles to guide the design process from a formal speciication to a design. Software architectural styles assist by providing a diierent level of reuse tha...

The codification of software architectural decisions made to address recurring software development challenges results in architectural styles. The Alfa framework provides a small set of architectural primitives for systematically specifying styles and style-based architectures for networkbased systems. In this paper, we formalize Alfa’s primitives in a compositional theory of styles and softwa...

During component composition, mismatches may occur on different aspects, such as interaction behaviors between components and features imposed by architectural styles. In this paper, we studied architectural mismatches related to connecting components using a specified architectural style, which implies that the connections supported by components may be incompatible with the connection suppose...

The relationship of architectural styles and ADAGE was explored in previous reports, and extensions to GenVoca to support architectural styles were proposed. In this report, we present a new way of achieving architectural style customization within GenVoca and show that there is a straightforward implementation of these ideas. The contribution of our work is that the basic GenVoca concepts, nam...

ion should also suppress implementation decisions. Several designs unnecessarily reveal implementation decisions: Booth and Yin and Tanik included a global system clock and the fact that it has a millisecond resolution. Kirby included extensive information about range, resolution, and accuracy of values. Ward and Keskar included details of the defmition of events at the beginning of the design....

The backbone of many software architectures and component integration frameworks is an architectural style that provides a domain-specific design vocabulary and a set of constraints on how that vocabulary is used. Given the increasing number and complexity of architectural styles, designing a sound and appropriate style becomes an important and intellectually challenging activity. Unfortunately...

This paper highlights the problem of describing the software architecture of a distributed system, and introduces the Architectural Styles proposed by Shaw&Garlan as a possible solution. Using a pattern template, it explores four major styles for distribution architecture: Host-Terminal, Client-Server, Broadcast Data and Batch Communication. Introduction One major problem we find in building la...

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Development of software-intensive systems nowadays rely extremely on middleware platforms as a major building block especially to handle the distribution issues. This dependency has become even more crucial in the distributed embedded systems environment. As such, the architectural choices of such systems are being driven by middleware platforms. However, diversity and high frequency of evoluti...