ADLARS: An Architecture Description Language for Software Product Lines

Abstract

Abstract

Modelling large-scale information systems using ADLs – An industrial experience report

“…While ADLs originated in academia such as ACME [13]/ADML, ABACUS [14], Aesop [15], UniCon [16], Wright [17], GEN-VOCA [18], π-ADL [3], Rapide [19], SADL [20], xADL [21], ADLARS [22], ALI [23,24], ArchiMate [25] and ByADL [1], to name a few, all exhibit novel approaches to architecture description, from support for interchange and interoperability to advanced architectural analysis capabilities, the vast majority tend to be vertically optimized, limiting their attractiveness in many industrial projects.…”

Towards More Flexible Architecture Description Languages for Industrial Applications

“…For example, while interfaces are described in terms of input and output ports in Wright, interfaces are described in terms of services provided/required in Koala, and messages sent/received in ADLARS [4]. With current advances in different domains including Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and adaptive systems, within a single system we could have a number of different interface types used (which is often the case).…”

“…ALI has been designed on the basis of our previous work on ADLs, including the ADLARS notation [4]. It seeks to address a number of the issues discussed above.…”

“…have not been the focus of most existing ADLs. ADLs such as ADLARS [4] and few others allow the addition of free textual comments to the architecture description using standard commenting syntax similar to that used in programming languages (e.g. through the usage of "/*", "//", etc.).…”

“…We then present the major concepts behind the ALI ADL which has been designed with the identified limitations in mind. ALI also built upon our experience with the ADLARS [4] ADL and adopted much of the solution space provided by ADLARS such as its support for Software Product Lines.…”