Service Oriented Architectural Design

Emilio TuostoComputer Science Department

University of Leicester

withR. Bruni, A. Lluch Lafuente, and U. Montanari

Dipartimento di InformaticaUniversita’ di Pisa

Web Engineering DayAthens, Sept. 3 2007

Motivations

Key issues of service-based architectures: design reconfiguration

Styles for reusing existing design patternsRun-time changes (e.g., dynamic binding)

require reconfigurations of architecturescomplement their static reconfigurationsdriven by architectural information specified during design

Often, architectural styles must be preserved or consistently changed

SEnSOria aims to develop an approach for engineering SOCs

ADR principlesArchitectures are modelled as suitable graphsHierarchical architectural designs

style preserving rules (not original)algebraic presentation (original)

Reconfigurations defined over style proofs instead of actual architectures

exploits the algebraic presentationstraightforward definition of hierarchical and inductive reconfigurations (ordinary term rewriting and SOS)only valid contexts considered (not all concrete designs)matching is simpler during reconfigurations (design driven)

Overview

Architectural Design Rewriting (ADR)Development/reconfiguration of software architecturesTaking into accounts styles for “well-formed” reconfigurationsApplying ADR to SRML so that SRML is respected by construction (i.e., style preserving rewritings)Concluding remarks

ADR ingredients

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Conclusions

We propose ADR as a framework for style-preserving reconfigurations of software architecturesBased on algebra of typed-graphs with interfacesHierarchical and inductive features for representing complex reconfigurationsFormal model for SRML...reconfigurations of which are compliant with SRML meta-model by constructionFuture work: application of ADR to SOA

Useful pointers

A technical report is available athttp://www.di.unipi.it/TR/(TR-07-17)Emails

Roberto: bruni@di.unipi.itAlberto: llafuente@di.unipi.itUgo: ugo@di.unipi.itEmilio: et52@le.ac.uk