Software Architecture 1 [Hardcover]

Over the past 20 years, software architectures have significantly contributed to the development of complex and distributed systems. Nowadays, it is recognized that one of the critical problems in the design and development of any complex software system is its architecture, i.e. the organization of its architectural elements. Software Architecture presents the software architecture paradigms based on objects, components, services and models, as well as the various architectural techniques and methods, the analysis of architectural qualities, models of representation of architectural templates and styles, their formalization, validation and testing and finally the engineering approach in which these consistent and autonomous elements can be tackled.

Preface ix

Chapter 1. Object-Oriented, Component-Based, Agent-Oriented and Service-Oriented Paradigms in Software Architectures 1
Abdelkrim AMIRAT, Anthony HOCK-KOON and Mourad Chabane OUSSALAH

1.1. Introduction 2

1.2. History 3

1.2.1. Object-oriented paradigm 3

1.2.2. Component-based paradigm 4

1.2.3. Agent-oriented paradigm 4

1.2.4. Service-oriented paradigm 5

1.3. Software architecture 8

1.3.1. Object-oriented software architecture 8

1.3.2. Component-based software architecture 10

1.3.3. Agent-oriented software architecture 11

1.3.4. Service-oriented architecture 13

1.4. The two dimensions of the conceptual framework for comparison: quantitative and qualitative 15

1.4.1. Conceptual differences 16

1.4.2. Quantitative dimension 25

1.4.3. Qualitative dimension 32

1.5. Approaches for integrating development paradigms 43