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DOI:10.2298/CSIS101228017O

Domain-Specific Language for Coordination Patterns

Nuno Oliveira¹, Nuno Rodrigues^{1, 2} and Pedro Rangel Henriques¹

1. University of Minho, Department of Computer Science
   Campus de Gualtar, 4715-057, Braga, Portugal
   {fnunooliveira,prhg}@di.uminho.pt
2. IPCA – Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave
   Campus do IPCA, Barcelos, Portugal
   nfr@ipca.pt

Abstract

The integration and composition of software systems requires a good architectural design phase to speed up communications between (remote) components. However, during implementation phase, the code to coordinate such components often ends up mixed in the main business code. This leads to maintenance problems, raising the need for, on the one hand, separating the coordination code from the business code, and on the other hand, providing mechanisms for analysis and comprehension of the architectural decisions once made. In this context our aim is at developing a domain-specific language, CoordL, to describe typical coordination patterns. From our point of view, coordination patterns are abstractions, in a graph form, over the composition of coordination statements from the system code. These patterns would allow us to identify, by means of pattern-based graph search strategies, the code responsible for the coordination of the several components in a system. The recovering and separation of the architectural decisions for a better comprehension of the software is the main purpose of this pattern language.

Key words

coordination patterns, software architectures, domain-specific languages, CoordInspector

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https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS101228017O

Publication information

Volume 8, Issue 2 (May 2011)
Advances in Formal Languages, Modeling and Applications
Year of Publication: 2011
ISSN: 2406-1018 (Online)
Publisher: ComSIS Consortium

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Oliveira, N., Rodrigues, N., Henriques, P. R.: Domain-Specific Language for Coordination Patterns. Computer Science and Information Systems, Vol. 8, No. 2, 343-359. (2011), https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS101228017O