An Integrative Approach for Software Architectures
Manfred Nagl · RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen) · 2021
This paper is on one hand a survey on /Na 90/ and newer results.On the other hand, it summarizes the integrative nature of the approach to architecture modeling presented there.Different views and aspects are brought together, which all are important, when building up or changing an architecture: the static part (how to compose components with connectors), the different paradigms and abstractions which can be used (locality, layers, object-orientation abbr.OO), bigger parts as subarchitectures and subsystems, and various patterns to be followed.Further and important aspects like semantics, concurrency, abstract connectors and the different mechanisms for their realization, distribution, and different styles, are regarded as well.We follow the guideline, that if different artifacts are used, the relations between them must be clear and obvious.Furthermore, all fragments, artifacts, and documents -for architecture modeling as well as for other working areas of software development -must build up a product model for the system to be constructed or maintained.Both ideas come from the architecture for buildings (standard views and building information model).