A Graphical Representation of COTS-based Software Architectures

As commercial components emerge and commence to be used in real applications, the need to design such systems with a sound architecture becomes a critical issue. Traditionally, Architectural Description Languages have been used for that purposes, although their formality and unfriendliness have limited their use in industrial environments. On the other hand, the successful and widespread modeling notation UML has shown some limitations when used for representing Software Architectures. In this...