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Talks and Poster Presentations (with Proceedings-Entry):

M. Pinzger, J. Oberleitner, H. Gall:
"Analyzing and Understanding Architectural Characteristics of COM+ Components";
Talk: IEEE International Workshop on Program Comprehension (IWPC), Portland, Oregon; 05-10-2003 - 05-11-2003; in: "Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Program Comprehension", IEEE CS Press, (2003), ISBN: 0-7695-1883-4; 54 - 63.



English abstract:
Understanding architectural characteristics of software components
that constitute distributed systems is crucial for maintaining and
evolving them. One component framework heavily used for developing
component-based software systems is Microsoft's COM+. In this paper we
particularly concentrate on the analysis of COM+ components and
introduce an iterative and interactive approach that combines
component inspection techniques with source code analysis to obtain a
complete abstract model of each COM+ component. The model describes
important architectural characteristics such as transactions,
security, and persistency, as well as create and use dependencies
between components, and maps these higher-level concepts down to their
implementation in source files. Based on the model, engineers can
browse the software system's COM+ components and navigate from the
list of architectural characteristics to the corresponding source code
statements. We also discuss the Island Hopper application with which
our approach has been validated.


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