ENGINEERING A COMPONENT LANGUAGE: COMPJAVA

Hans Albrecht Schmid, Marco Pfeifer

2006

Abstract

After first great enthusiasm about the new generation of component languages like ArchJava, ComponentJ and ACOEL, a closer inspection and use of these languages identified together with their strong points some smaller, but disturbing drawbacks. These might impede a wider acceptance of component languages, which would be harmful since the integration of architecture description with a programming language increases the emphasis on, and consequently the quality of application architecture. Therefore, we took an engineering approach to the construction of a new Java-based component language without these drawbacks. That means, we derived general component language requirements; designed a first language version meeting the requirements and developed a compiler; used it in several projects; and re-iterated three times through the same cycle with improved language versions. The result, called CompJava, which should be fairly stable by now, is presented in the paper.

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Albrecht Schmid H. and Pfeifer M. (2006). ENGINEERING A COMPONENT LANGUAGE: COMPJAVA . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-972-8865-69-6, pages 98-106. DOI: 10.5220/0001320100980106

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft06,
author={Hans Albrecht Schmid and Marco Pfeifer},
title={ENGINEERING A COMPONENT LANGUAGE: COMPJAVA},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2006},
pages={98-106},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001320100980106},
isbn={978-972-8865-69-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - ENGINEERING A COMPONENT LANGUAGE: COMPJAVA
SN - 978-972-8865-69-6
AU - Albrecht Schmid H.
AU - Pfeifer M.
PY - 2006
SP - 98
EP - 106
DO - 10.5220/0001320100980106