Modeling architecture based development in UML

In this paper, an approach is presented to formally model architecture based software development process. The ability of UML in modeling software architecture is reinforced by defining a generic model of component and software architecture, and by integrating the model with UML class model and interaction model to unify software development process. In UML, software development is modeled in different views. With formal semantics, designer can keep consistency among these views. The paper demonstrates how to use the method to construct software.