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Software architecture and middleware platforms are different abstraction levels of component-based development that have been evolved separately. In order to address the gap between these two areas, in this paper we discuss the integration of a generic and extensible architecture description language, Acme, with a standard middleware platform – CORBA. We propose mapping rules to transform an ACME description into a CORBA IDL specification. To make it possible, we define some extensions to Acme to include some features according to the CORBA IDL specification. These extensions explore the facilities provided by Acme for expressing additional information. We use a case study to illustrate the mapping proposed.
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Rodrigues, M.J.N., Lucena, L., Batista, T. (2004). From Acme to CORBA: Bridging the Gap. In: Oquendo, F., Warboys, B.C., Morrison, R. (eds) Software Architecture. EWSA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3047. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24769-2_8
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