A Reflection Mechanism for Reusing Software Architecture

2006 Sixth International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC'06) Pub Date : 2006-10-27 DOI:10.1109/QSIC.2006.5

Ying Shi, Liang Zaoqing, Wang Junli, Wang Fudi

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Reusing software architecture and its constituents, which are a kind of coarse-grained software resources, are confronted with great difficulty. Reflection mechanism has been successfully applied in the reuse of code component, but scarcely applied in the reuse of architecture and its constituents. Architectural reflection is the computation performed by a system about its own architecture, and currently confined in the realm of the runtime management and dynamic evolution of software systems. This paper proposes a reflection mechanism supporting the reuse of architectural level design, which offers the information support for reusing the architecture and its constituents at design time of software architecture by modeling the meta-information about the base-level to construct a meta-level architecture. Moreover, this paper illustrates the approach to describing meta-level architecture of this reflection mechanism, and presents the solution of constructing this reflection mechanism in detail. Through this reflection mechanism, architects could accomplish the tasks of architecture design efficiently at software design stage, by reusing software architecture and its constituents

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软件架构复用的反射机制

软件体系结构及其组成部分作为一种粗粒度的软件资源，其重用面临着很大的困难。反射机制已成功地应用于代码组件的重用，但很少应用于体系结构及其组件的重用。体系结构反射是系统对自身体系结构进行的计算，目前局限于软件系统的运行时管理和动态演化领域。本文提出了一种支持架构级设计重用的反射机制，通过对基级元信息进行建模，构建元级架构，为软件架构设计阶段重用架构及其组成部分提供信息支持。在此基础上，阐述了该反射机制的元级体系结构描述方法，并给出了构建该反射机制的具体方案。通过这种反射机制，架构师可以通过重用软件架构及其组成部分，在软件设计阶段高效地完成架构设计任务

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