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SERA 2003: Software Engineering Research and Applications pp 102–116Cite as

Communication Style Driven Connector Configurations

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Connectors are used in component-based systems as first-class entities to abstract component interactions. In this paper, we propose a way to compose connectors by using fine-grained elements, each of them representing a single, well-defined function. We identify an experimentally proven set of connector elements, which, composed together, model four basic component interconnection types (procedure call, messaging, streaming, blackboard), and allow for connector variants to reflect distribution, security, fault- tolerance, etc. We also discuss how to generate such a connector semi-automatically. The presented results are based on a proof-of-the-concept implementation.

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  1. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Software Engineering, Charles University, Malostranske namesti 25, 118 00, Prague 1, Czech Republic

    Tomas Bures & Frantisek Plasil

  2. Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic,  

    Tomas Bures & Frantisek Plasil

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California Berkeley, CA 96720, Berkeley, USA

    C. V. Ramamoorthy

  2. Software Engineering and Information Technology Institute, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, 48859, Michigan, USA

    Roger Lee

  3. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Korea

    Kyung Whan Lee

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Bures, T., Plasil, F. (2004). Communication Style Driven Connector Configurations. In: Ramamoorthy, C.V., Lee, R., Lee, K.W. (eds) Software Engineering Research and Applications. SERA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3026. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24675-6_11

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