Abstract

Nowadays, to allow for rapid software evolution, more and more software developers are starting to construct their products from reusable software components. In this approach, the architecture of a system is described as a collection of components along with the interactions among those components. Even though the main building blocks of the system are components, the properties of the system also strongly depend on the character of the component interactions. This fact gave birth to a connector as an abstraction capturing the nature of these interactions. Even though the notion of connectors originates in the earliest papers on software architectures [54, 47], connectors are currently far from being a typical first class entity in contemporary component-based systems.

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