xADL: enabling architecture-centric tool integration with XML

In order to support architecture-centric tool integration within the ArchStudio 2.0 Integrated Development Environment (IDE), we adopted Extensible Markup Language (XML) to represent the shared architecture-in-progress. Since ArchStudio is an architectural style-based development environment that in...

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Main Authors: Khare, R., Guntersdorfer, M., Oreizy, P., Medvidovic, N., Taylor, R.N.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Automation
Computer science
Connectors
HTML
Humans
Markup languages
SGML
Uniform resource locators
Web sites
XML
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Summary:In order to support architecture-centric tool integration within the ArchStudio 2.0 Integrated Development Environment (IDE), we adopted Extensible Markup Language (XML) to represent the shared architecture-in-progress. Since ArchStudio is an architectural style-based development environment that incorporates an extensive number of tools, including commercial off-the-shelf products, we developed a new, vendor-neutral, ADL-neutral interchange format called Extensible Architecture description Language (xADL), as well as a "vocabulary" specific to the C2 style (xC2). This paper outlines our vision for representing architectures as hypertext, the design rationale behind xADL and xC2, and summarizes our engineering experience with this strategy.
DOI:10.1109/HICSS.2001.927248