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Seventh International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC'03)
p. 112
A Systematic Approach to Platform-Independent Design Based on the Service Concept
Joao Paulo Almeida, University of Twente
Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente
Luis Ferreira Pires, University of Twente
Dick Quartel, University of Twente
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This paper aims at demonstrating the benefits and importance of the service concept in the model-driven design of distributed applications. A service defines the observable behaviour of a system without constraining the system’s internal structure. We argue that by specifying application-level interaction aspects as a service, and designing application parts in terms of this service, the design of application parts is not constrained by interaction patterns provided by a middleware platform. Therefore, a level of platform-independence can be achieved, so that the design of application parts can be reused across a large set of middleware platforms. The service concept is also used in our approach to describe an abstract platform that defines what characteristics of a potential target middleware platform are considered in platform-independent design. We discuss the trade-offs a designer is confronted with in the definition of an abstract platform, and discuss alternatives for platform-specific realization.
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Index Terms- platform-independence, middleware, Model
Driven Architecture, service concept
Citation:
Joao Paulo Almeida, Marten van Sinderen, Luis Ferreira Pires, Dick Quartel,
"A Systematic Approach to Platform-Independent Design Based on the Service Concept,"
edoc,
p. 112,
Seventh International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC'03),
2003
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