DocumentCode :
2696236
Title :
Modeling dynamic component interfaces
Author :
Huber, Franz ; Rausch, Andreas ; Rumpe, Bernhard
Author_Institution :
Tech. Univ. Munchen, Germany
fYear :
1998
fDate :
3-7 Aug 1998
Firstpage :
58
Lastpage :
70
Abstract :
We adopt a component model based on object-oriented systems, introducing the concepts of components and their structure. A component consists of a dynamically changing set of connected objects. Only some of these objects are interface objects, and are thus accessible from the environment. During the component lifetime not only the number of objects, but also that of interface objects, and their connections change. To describe this situation, we introduce component interface diagrams (CIDs)-an adaption of UML diagrams-as a notation to characterize interfaces of components, their structure, and their navigability. We show how CIDs can be used to describe the in-house developed Open Editor Framework (OEF). Finally, we give guidelines that allow to map components described with CIDs directly to several component technologies, like ActiveX, CORBA, or Java Beans
Keywords :
application program interfaces; diagrams; object-oriented programming; software reusability; ActiveX; CORBA; Java Beans; Open Editor Framework; UML diagrams; component interface diagrams; component model; dynamic component interface modeling; interface objects; object-oriented systems; software reuse; Guidelines; Java; Navigation; Object oriented modeling; Open source software; Programming; Software engineering; Software prototyping; Unified modeling language;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Technology of Object-Oriented Languages, 1998. TOOLS 26. Proceedings
Conference_Location :
Santa Barbara, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8482-8
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/TOOLS.1998.711003
Filename :
711003
Link To Document :
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