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10th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2003)
p. 67
Reconstructing Software Architecture for J2EE Web Applications
Minmin Han, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Christine Hofmeister, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Robert L. Nord, Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
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In this paper we describe our approach to
reconstructing the software architecture of J2EE web
applications. We use the Siemens Four Views approach,
separating the architecture into conceptual, module,
execution, and code views. We paid particular attention
to the dependencies in the implementation, which led to
two results. One is the distinction between a traditional
usage dependency and a more superficial "knows"
dependency, where one module knows of another by type
name but nothing else. Another is the recognition of
important but implicit dependencies in web applications,
between a client page formatting a request and a module
interpreting the request. We make these explicit as
"logical interfaces." Using separate views improves our
ability to describe these architectures, and we provide a
scenario showing how it helps a developer understand the
impact of changes to the application. Although we have
not yet developed tools to automate such a
reconstruction, this paper provides a critical first step in
describing what should be present in an architecture
description, and how this information can be deduced
from the implementation.
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Citation:
Minmin Han, Christine Hofmeister, Robert L. Nord,
"Reconstructing Software Architecture for J2EE Web Applications,"
wcre,
p. 67,
10th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2003),
2003
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