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Janus: Using a Pattern Language to Create Software Architecture

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This paper presents the theoretical background to Janus, an ongoing project that has been more fully described elsewhere, that explores the use of software patterns organised in a pattern language, to capture and express the normally tacit and configurational knowledge that is the essence of architectural knowledge. Software development, considered as a professional practice is a design discipline which has been, historically, poorly served by the positivist traditions of Computer Science. Architectural knowledge, as understood in the context of other professional disciplines in which it is utilised, drives design at all levels of scale. The creation of software architectures requires some way of expressing this normally tacit knowledge. The experiences, first of ADAPTOR and now of Janus, strongly suggest that pattern languages may provide just such a vehicle.

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  1. Software Technology Research Laboratory, SERC Centre, De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK

    Alan O’Callaghan

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  1. School of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics, South Bank University, 103 Borough Road, London, UK

    Dilip Patel  & Shushma Patel  & 

  2. School of Computing, London Guildhall University, 100 Minories, London, UK

    Islam Choudhury

  3. Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, Uxbridge, London, UK

    Sergio de Cesare

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O’Callaghan, A. (2001). Janus: Using a Pattern Language to Create Software Architecture. In: Patel, D., Choudhury, I., Patel, S., de Cesare, S. (eds) OOIS 2000. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0299-1_28

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