Dynamic Component Gluing

One way to develop a system is to start with use cases, realize them as UML collaborations, code them as collaborating classes and deploy them in an application. The deployment part is a connector that says how a generic collaboration is adapted to a specific application. The connector defines the difference between the generic and the specific.

This paper is about the depolyment/connector part. The collaborations and connectors are programmed as Java classes in such a way that application and collaboration classes need no adaptation. All connection and adaptation information is localized in a a connector class that relies on Java inner classes.

The ideas are also a applicable to the implementation of AP&PC allowing for dynamic addition of new collaborations to an existing system.

The paper is available

here in several formats.

For more information about this paper, see Linda Seiter's page.


Bibtex entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{with-linda-mira:inner,
AUTHOR = "Linda Seiter and Mira Mezini and Karl Lieberherr",
TITLE = "Dynamic Component Gluing",
BOOKTITLE = "First International Symposium on Generative and
Component-Based Software Engineering",
YEAR = "1999",
ADDRESS = "Erfurt, Germany",
PAGES = "",
EDITOR = "Ulrich Eisenecker and Krzysztof Czarnecki",
PUBLISHER = "Springer"
}