Design of Secure Connectors for Complex Message Communications in Software Architecture

Abstract

This paper describes the design of secure connectors that deal with various message communications between application components in secure distributed component-based software architectures. The secure connectors are designed with more than one communication pattern between application components, security patterns required by the components, and security coordinators integrating security patterns and communication patterns. This paper describes the pseudocode of security coordinators. The secure connectors make application components free from maintaining complex message communication sequence logic and security concerns. To validate our design, we applied secure connectors to the model-view-controller (MVC) architecture for a secure distributed baseball game application.