TY - GEN
T1 - Extending UML for modeling reflective software components
AU - Suzuki, Junichi
AU - Yamamoto, Yoshikazu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - This paper describes our extension of the UML metamodel for specifying reflective software components. Reflection is a design principle that allows a system to have a representation of itself in the manner that makes it easy to adapt the system to a changing environment. It has matured to the point where it is used to address real-world problems in various areas. We describe how to document reflective components in the framework of UML. Our work allows for recognizing and understanding reflective components in the upper levels of abstraction at an earlier stage of the development process. It leverages the documentation, learning, visual modeling, reuse and roundtrip development of metalevel designs. We also demonstrate the seamless model exchange between different development tools and model continuity across development phases with application-neutral interchange formats.
AB - This paper describes our extension of the UML metamodel for specifying reflective software components. Reflection is a design principle that allows a system to have a representation of itself in the manner that makes it easy to adapt the system to a changing environment. It has matured to the point where it is used to address real-world problems in various areas. We describe how to document reflective components in the framework of UML. Our work allows for recognizing and understanding reflective components in the upper levels of abstraction at an earlier stage of the development process. It leverages the documentation, learning, visual modeling, reuse and roundtrip development of metalevel designs. We also demonstrate the seamless model exchange between different development tools and model continuity across development phases with application-neutral interchange formats.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/78349282919
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U2 - 10.1007/3-540-46852-8_16
DO - 10.1007/3-540-46852-8_16
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78349282919
SN - 3540667121
SN - 9783540667124
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 220
EP - 235
BT - UML 1999 - The Unified Modeling Language
A2 - France, Robert
A2 - Rumpe, Bernhard
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Unified Modeling Language, UML 1999
Y2 - 28 October 1999 through 30 October 1999
ER -