AcmeStudio: supporting style-centered architecture development

Software architectural modeling is crucial to the development of high-quality software. Tool support is required for this activity, so that models can be developed, viewed, analyzed, and refined to implementations. This support needs to be provided in a flexible and extensible manner so that the tools can fit into a company´s process and can use particular, perhaps company-defined, domain-specific architectural styles. In this research demonstration, we describe AcmeStudio, a style-neutral architecture development environment that can be easily specialized for architectural design in different domains.