Driving the composition of runtime platforms by architectural knowledge
Lothar Baum, Martin G. Becker, Lars Geyer, Georg Molter, Peter F. Sturm · 1998
Reusing approved components is an attractive approach for the customization of runtime platforms in an economically sensible manner.However, the successful transition from particular requirements to a suitable architecture including appropriate components heavily relies on the expertise of the system designers.In this paper, we propose an architecture-driven approach to support runtime platform developers in the composition of customized platforms.Central to this approach is the explicit consideration of architectural aspects on an intermediate level of description.At this level, the appropriate matching of requirements against properties of available components is controlled by formalized architectural knowledge.With SDL patterns and design spaces we present two techniques for performing this mapping process.