SOFTON: a flexible software construction model by interface mediation

An approach is presented that realizes the software construction from components by mediating between their connecting interfaces. The model consists of an interface specification, which describes the abstract interface of each component, and a mediation, which transforms specifications to meet each other and then generates interface mediator programs. A discussion is presented of the need to mediate between interfaces, describe the abstraction of a component´s interface and the mediation of interface specifications