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XML Implementation of Frame Processor (2001)
| Venue: | In: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Software Reusability (SSR’01 |
| Citations: | 1 - 0 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Wong01xmlimplementation,
author = {Tak Wai Wong and Stan Jarzabek and Soe Myat Swe and Ru Shen and Hongyu Zhang},
title = {XML Implementation of Frame Processor},
booktitle = {In: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Software Reusability (SSR’01},
year = {2001}
}
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Abstract
A quantitative study has shown that frame technology [1] supported by Fusion toolset can lead to reduction in time-to-market (70%) and project costs (84%). Frame technology has been developed to handle large COBOL-based business software product families. We wished to investigate how the principle of frame approach can be applied to support product families in other application domains, in particular to build distributed component-based systems written in Object-Oriented languages. As Fusion is tightly coupled with COBOL, we implemented our own tools based on frame concepts using the XML technology. In our solution, a generic architecture for a product family is a hierarchy of XML documents. Each such document contains a reusable program fragment instrumented for change with XML tags. We use a tool built on top of XML parsing framework JAXP to process documents in order to produce a custom member of a product family. Our solution is cost-effective and extensible. In the paper, we describe our solution, illustrating its use with examples. We intend to make our solution available to public in order to encourage investigation of frame concepts in other application domains, implementation languages and platforms.
Keyphrases
frame processor xml implementation product family frame technology application domain frame concept generic architecture frame approach xml tag xml technology framework jaxp implementation language project cost quantitative study reusable program fragment distributed component-based system custom member fusion toolset xml document object-oriented language
