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UML 1.4 versus UML 2.0 as Languages to Describe Software Architectures

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Software Architecture (EWSA 2004)

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UML 1.4 is widely accepted as the standard for representing the various software artifacts generated by a development process. For this reason, there have been attempts to use this language to represent the software architecture of systems as well. Unfortunately, these attempts have ended in representations (boxes and lines) already criticized by the software architecture community. Recently, OMG has published a draft that will constitute the future UML 2.0 specification. In this paper we compare the capacities of UML 1.4 and UML 2.0 to describe software architectures. In particular, we study extensions of both UML versions to describe the static view of the C3 architectural style (a simplification of the C2 style). One of the results of this study is the difficulties found when using the UML 2.0 metamodel to describe the concept of connector in a software architecture.

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  1. Departamento de Informática Aplicada, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus Sur de la U.P.M., 28031, Madrid, Spain

    Jorge Enrique Pérez-Martínez

  2. Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Ctra. de Colmenar, km. 15, 28049, Madrid, Spain

    Almudena Sierra-Alonso

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  1. VALORIA Laboratory, University of South Brittany, Tohannic Campus, 56017, Vannes, France

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  2. University of Manchester, M13 9PL, Manchester, UK

    Brian C. Warboys

  3. School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, KY16 9SX, St Andrews Fife, UK

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Pérez-Martínez, J.E., Sierra-Alonso, A. (2004). UML 1.4 versus UML 2.0 as Languages to Describe Software Architectures. In: Oquendo, F., Warboys, B.C., Morrison, R. (eds) Software Architecture. EWSA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3047. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24769-2_7

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