Authors:
Alti Adel
;
Khammaci Tahar
;
Smeda Adel
and
Bennouar Djamal
Affiliation:
LINA, University of Nantes, France
Keyword(s):
Software Architecture, COSA, MDA, CORBA, UML profile, Mapping rules.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications and Software Development
;
Component-Based Software Engineering
;
Embedded Communications Systems
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Model-Driven Software Development
;
Neurocomputing
;
Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics
;
Reverse Engineering
;
Software Architectures
;
Software Engineering
;
Telecommunications
Abstract:
Architecture Description Languages (ADLs) provide an abstract representation of software systems. Achieving a concrete mapping of such representation into the implementation is one of the principal aspects of MDA (Model Driven Architecture). Integration of ADLs within MDA confers to the MDA platform a higher level of abstraction and a degree of reuse of ADLs. Indeed they have significantly different platform metamodels which make the definition of mapping rules complex. This complexity is clearly noticeable when some software architecture concepts cannot be easily mapped to MDA platform. In this paper, we propose to integrate software architecture within MDA. We define also strategy for direct transformation using a UML profile. It represents both software architecture model (PIM) and MDA platform model (PSM) in UML meta-model then elaborates transformation rules between results UML meta-models. The goal is to automate the process of deriving implementation platform from software con
cepts.
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