Interpreting Model-Based Components for Information Systems

Abstract

To foster the reuse of software artifacts various approaches like Component Based Software Engineering or Model-Driven Software Development have been proposed. These approaches support a developer in generating and implementing platform specific software artifacts, which can be executed on the chosen runtime architecture. To facilitate portability of these artifacts to other runtime architectures it is important to model various aspects of the artifact (i.e. user interface, behavior, data) in a platform independent way. While this abstraction helps to reduce complexity of the problem, choosing the right granularity of methods provided by this artifact is another important issue for enhancing software quality.Considering these aspects a model-based development approach is presented, which is based on the interpretation of several model views -- like state machine and class diagrams being provided by a model-based software component. Additionally the integration of components build with this approach in the design of an information system is discussed. The proposed architecture is evaluated by animplementation in the software application domain of logistics.