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| Type | Conference or Workshop Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Published in Proceedings | No |
| Title | Analyzing and understanding architectural characteristics of COM+ components |
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| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
| Page Range | 54 - 63 |
| Event Title | Proceedings of the International Workshop on Program Comprehension (IWPC'03) |
| Place of Publication | Portland, Oregon, USA |
| Publisher | IEEE Computer Society |
| Abstract Text | Understanding architectural characteristics of software components that constitute distributed systems is crucial for maintaining and evolving them. One component framework heavily used for developing component-based software systems is Microsoft’s COM+. In this paper we particularly concentrate on the analysis of COM+ components and introduce an iterative and interactive approach that combines component inspection techniques with source code analysis to obtain a complete abstract model of each COM+ component. The model describes important architectural characteristics such as transactions, security, and persistency, as well as create and use dependencies between components, and maps these higher-level concepts down to their implementation in source files. Based on the model, engineers can browse the software system’s COM+ components and navigate from the list of architectural characteristics to the corresponding source code statements. We also discuss the Island Hopper application with which our approach has been validated. |
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