Visual Architecture Description Language XYZ/ADL
Hua Luo · 2000
In this paper, the authors describe a visual language XYZ/ADL (XYZ/architecture description language) for software architecture description based on XYZ/E to support a new approach of architecture based programming. XYZ/ADL is composed of components, connectors and ports, by which it can describe many commonly used kinds of software architectures. Since XYZ/E can represent both statistic and dynamic semantics in a unified form, XYZ/ADL which is built on it can finish smoothly the transformation between architectures at different abstract levels in a uniform frame.