Reference Architecture Modeling with the UML and Vital: A Comparative Study
Wilhelm Hasselbring · 2001
Software reference architectures aim at supporting software product lines, describing the commonalities as well as the variabilities among individual products in a family. Many notations for architectural representation do exist, but only a few explicitly support modeling of software reference architectures. The Variability and Dependency Model (Vital) offers such a notation which is specifically designed for describing software product line reference architectures [7]. Vital complements existing notations by focusing on issues only relevant to reference architectures and assuming that all other required architectural information is properly described by other means.