On the reconfiguration of software connectors

• Author(s): Oliveira, Nuno ; Barbosa, L. S.
• Date: 2013
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/26532
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Software connectors; Architectural reconfiguration; Software connectors; Reconfiguration
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

Software connectors encapsulate interaction patterns between services in complex, distributed service-oriented applications. Such patterns evolve over time, in response to faults, changes in the expected QoS levels, emergent requirements or the re-assessment of contextual conditions. This paper builds up on a model for connector reconfiguration to introduce notions of reconfiguration equivalence and refinement allowing for reasoning about them. This paves the way towards a (still missing) calculus of connector reconfigurations.