A Complex Meta-model for Extra-Functional Properties Concerning Common Data Types: Their Comparing and Binding
K Jez · 2010
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and components as technologies for rapid development still have not reached their maturity. One of the insufficiently explored areas is the one of a selection of a service or a component in terms of extra-functional properties. A lot of current approaches partly target extra-functional properties but do not provide a meta-model that would cover aspects such as the definition of properties, their assignment and their evaluation. Their practical application is limited, because a lot of specialized partial approaches may hardly be put together. In this work we propose a general and loosely coupled meta-model that covers all above mentioned aspects. The model is useful for developers to create a complete extra-functional support in applications.