Abstract
When a software component is used, it is often necessary to set initial values in many of its attributes. To set these initial values appropriately, the user of the component must ascertain which attributes are needed to be initialized, and set them programmatically to suitable initial values. The work involved in this sort of initialization can be alleviated by attaching a wizard interface to the target component itself and setting the initial values visually from the wizard. However, there are large development costs associated with devising suitable initial value candidates and producing a new wizard to use these initial values for each individual component. In this paper, we propose a system whereby application programs that use a target component are subjected to dynamic analysis to discover which attributes and initial values are set most often during thr running of the component. The proposed system generates and attaches a wizard, which supports application programmers to initialize the component visually by using these initial values, to the component. The proposed system can be recognized as a system for applying the Wizard pattern to each component automatically. Experiments have shown that the attributes and their initial values chosen for initialization by generated wizards closely resemble the expectations of the component’s original developers. We have thus confirmed that the proposed system can bring about a substantial reduction in wizard development costs.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
C. Szyperski, Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming, Addison-Wesley, 1999.
J. Hopkins: Component Primer, Communications of the ACM, Vol.43, No.10, 2000.
G. Hamilton: JavaBeans 1.01 Specification, Sun Microsystems, 1997, http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/
L.G. DeMichiel: Enterprise JavaBeans 2.1 Specification, Sun Microsystems, 2003,
M. Aoyama and T. Yamashita: Software Commerce Broker over the Internet, Proc. 22nd IEEE Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1998.
M. Welie: The Wizard Pattern, Proc. CHI 200 Workshop on Pattern Languages for Interaction Design: Building Momentum, 2000.
H. Washizaki, H. Yamamoto and Y. Fukazawa: A Metrics Suite for Measuring Reusability for Software Components, Proc. 9th IEEE International Symposium on Software Metrics, 2003.
A. Denning: ActiveX Controls Inside Out, Microsoft Press, 1997.
Object Management Group, OMG Unified Modeling Language Guide Specification, 1999, http://www.uml.org/
M. Sakamoto: JavaBeans Programming Primer, Ohmsha, 1997. (in Japanese)
S. Chiba: Javassist: A Reflection-based Programming Wizard for Java, Proc. Workshop on Reflective Programming in C++ and Java, 1998.
I.H. Witten, D. Bainbridge and S. J. Boddie: Power to the people : End-user building of digital library collections, Proc. ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2001.
C. S. Sheong: Build Wizards Quickly Using a Swing-Based Wizard Framework, JavaReport, May, 2001.
Sun Microsystems, BeanBox, http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/
D. Birngruber and M. Hof: Using Plans for Specifying Preconfigured Bean Sets, Proc. 34th International Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems, 2000.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2006 Springer
About this paper
Cite this paper
Washizaki, H., Honiden, S., Yamamoto, R., Adachi, T., Fukazawa, Y. (2006). Automatic Generation of Software Component Wizards based on the Wizard Pattern. In: Sobh, T., Elleithy, K. (eds) Advances in Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5263-4_10
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5263-4_10
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-1-4020-5262-0
Online ISBN: 978-1-4020-5263-7
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)