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Acme: An Architecture Description Interchange Language (1997)
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| Venue: | in Proceedings of CASCON’97 |
| Citations: | 357 - 22 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Garlan97acme:an,
author = {David Garlan and Robert Monroe and David Wile},
title = {Acme: An Architecture Description Interchange Language},
booktitle = {in Proceedings of CASCON’97},
year = {1997},
pages = {169--183}
}
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Abstract
Numerous architectural description languages (ADLs) have been developed, each providing complementary capabilities for architectural development and analysis. Unfortunately, each ADL and supporting toolset operates in isolation, making it di cult to integrate those tools and share architectural descriptions. Acme is being developed as a joint e ort of the software architecture research community as a common interchange format for architecture design tools. Acme provides a structural framework for characterizing architectures, together with annotation facilities for additional ADLspeci c information. This scheme permits subsets of ADL tools to share architectural information that is jointly understood, while tolerating the presence of information that falls outside their common vocabulary. In this paper we describe Acme's key features, rationale, and technical innovations. 1
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architecture description interchange language di cult architectural development share architectural description software architecture research community structural framework technical innovation numerous architectural description language common interchange format common vocabulary additional adlspeci information joint ort architecture design tool complementary capability adl tool share architectural information key feature annotation facility
