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Software Architecture

Books

• Software Architecture in Practice
  Bass, Len and Clements, Paul and Kazman, Rick
  1998
  Addison-Wesley
  ISBN 0-201-19930-0
• A System of Patterns
  Buschmann, Frank and Meunier, Regine and Rohnert, Hans and Sommerlad, Peter and Stal, Michael
  1996
  Wiley
  ISBN 0-471-95869-7
• Design Patterns, Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
  Gamma, Erich and Helm, Richard and Johnson, Ralph and Vlissides, John
  1995
  Addison-Wesley
  ISBN 0-201-63361-2
• Component Software, Beyond Object-Oriented Programming
  Szyperski, Clemens
  1998
  Addison-Wesley
  ISBN 0-201-17888-5

Links

• Algemeen
  • Leeswijzer uit 1994 van Gert Florijn.
• Organisations related to software architecture research.
  • Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon (CMU).
  • Worldwide Institute of Software Architects (WWISA).
  • Stanford University, Computer Science Department.
  • Stanford Research Institute (aka SRI International), Computer Science Laboratory (CSL).
  • Bell labs, Computing Sciences Research Center (CSR), part of Lucent Technologies.
  • SUN.
    • Technical reports.
  • Seoul National University, Software Engineering Laboratory.
    • Seminars.
• Architecture Description Languages (ADL), modeling.
  • Stanford's Program Analysis and Verification Group.
    • Rapide project.
      • Publications: among which an introductory overview and tutorial, reference manual.
      • Guide/Overview to the Rapide Language Manuals (local pdf copy).
      • Transaction processing example (local pdf copy of article).
    • 3 Concepts of Software Architecture: why OO fails to specify architecture, other issues, what is needed. Local postscript or pdf copy.
  • ObjectTime: Real-time Object-Oriented Modeling (ROOM), with a demo.
  • Rational Software: Unified Modeling Language (UML), Rose.
  • SEI articles.
    • Overview of ADL's.
    • A comparison of ADL's, local pdf copy.
    • Survey, local postscript or pdf copy.
    • Formal Methods in Describing Architectures (about Modecharts), local postscript or pdf copy.
    • An Architectural Analysis Case Study: Internet Information Systems, local postscript or pdf copy.
  • Software Architecture Technology Guide.
    • Overview.
  • CMU's School of Computer Science.
    • Architecture Based Languages and Environments (ABLE).
    • UniCon.
    • Composable Software Systems.
    • ACME.
    • Aesop, Software Architecture Design Environment Generator.
  • Honeywell
    • Domain-Specific Software Architectures for GN&C.
    • MetaH.
  • SRI CSL.
    • SADL: A Structural Architecture Description Language. Local postscript or pdf copy of the introduction.
  • Computer Science, US Naval Postgraduate School
    • Computer Aided Prototyping Systems (CAPS)
  • Real-Time Systems Group, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin
    • ModeChart.
  • College of Computer Science, Northeastern University.
    • Demeter.
• Requirements Management.
  • Quality Systems and Software: DOORS.
  • Rational Software: RequisitePro.
• Architecture general
  • Software Technology for Adaptable, Reliable Systems (STARS) program is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
    The STARS goal is to increase software productivity, reliability, and quality by integrating support for modern software development processes and reuse concepts within software engineering environment (SEE) technology.
    • STARS Reuse Papers
    • STARS Software Engineering Environment Papers
  • Software Architecture at SEI.
  • Software Architecture Technology Guide.
  • Model Problems at CMU.
• Patterns
  • Patterns Home page.
• Operating systems
  • Plan9.
  • Inferno at Lucent Technologies, OS for embedded/network systems (e.g. telephone's, ...), developed at Bell Labs CSR.
  • BeOS van Be Inc.
  • Spring van SUN.
• (Networked/distributed) filesystems
  • Solaris MC File System Framework, van SUN, gebaseerd op Spring filesysteem, local pdf copy.

Distribution & Objects

Note: references are not up to date.

1. Java RMI
   • The www.javasoft.com doc of jdk1.1, containing doc about RMI and serialization
2. Corba
   • The Object Management Group (OMG) home page, where the technical library contains the formal spec of CORBA, its services and facilities.
     This material can also be found in the library as a paperversion.
   • Some free implementations.
     • JacORB
     • JavaORB
     • Java IDL as part of CORBA technology from SUN, doc.
     • Voyager ORB, from ObjectSpace.
       • Voyager documentation (7.5Mb pdf, local copy).
   • Some overview pages
     • CORBA products and vendors, by Ben Eng.
     • CORBA links as part of JacORB.
3. Voyager agents
   • The ObjectSpace home page, where the voyager system (version 3.1.1) can be downloaded from.
     
4. Linda, JavaSpaces
   • The Linda bibliography. From this biliography the following material is readily available:
     • David Gelernter. Generative Communication in Linda. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, Jan. 1985, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 80-112.
     • Nicholas Carriero and David Gelernter. The S/Net's Linda Kernel. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, May 1986, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 110-129.
     • Nicholas Carriero and David Gelernter. Linda in Context. Communications of the ACM, April 1989, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 444-458.
   • The products page of sun's java site, where the JavaSpaces specification can be downloaded from.
     
5. OpenDoc (& Components)
   • Apple's OpenDoc site, IBM's OpenDoc site.
   • The OpenDoc programmers guide (with architectural overview) and cookbook are locally available, in /praktikum/gos/Doc/OpenDoc.
   • General info on components
     • Component Technology page
     • Book Component Software, Beyond Object-Oriented Programming, Clemens Szyperski.
6. COM, DCOM, ActiveX, OLE
   • Books
     • Understanding ActiveX and OLE. A guid for Developers & Managers, Chappel, David, , 1996
     • Inside OLE, Brockschmidt, Kraig, , 1995
   • General info on COM, starting point for higher-level material, less technical.
   • The developer/technology pages on COM (and DCOM, ActiveX) from Microsoft. These contain
     • COM technical overview
     • DCOM technical overview
     • DCOM architecture
   • The pages on OLE, aka ActiveX. These contain
     • COM specification.
     • A kinda rationale about what COM is meant to solve.
     • Refs to COM, DCOM, ActiveX
   • A low level comparison of DCOM and CORBA