Middleware enables distributed components to interact with each others in diverse and complex manners. Such interactions should be modeled at architecture level for controlling th...
Software architectures promote development focused on modular building blocks and their interconnections. Since architecture-level components often contain complex functionality, ...
Eric M. Dashofy, Nenad Medvidovic, Richard N. Tayl...
In component based software engineering, an application is build by composing trusted and reusable units of execution, the components. A composition is formed by connecting the com...
Connectors and connector wrappers explicitly specify the protocol of interaction among components and afford the reusable application of extra-functional behaviors, such as reliabi...
re connector is an abstraction capturing interactions among components. Apart from middleware independence, connectors provide additional services (e.g., adaptation, synchronizati...