Supporting diversity with component frameworks as architectural elements

Author

Wijnstra, Jan Gerben

Author_Institution

Philips Res. Lab., Eindhoven, Netherlands

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

51

Lastpage

60

Abstract

The author describes personal experience with component frameworks within a family architecture for a medical imaging product family. The component frameworks are handled as an integral part of the architectural approach and are an important means to support diversity in the functionality provided by the individual family members. The paper focuses on a particular kind of component framework that has been applied throughout the medical imaging product family. This kind of framework is useful when the various family members are based on the same concepts and the diversity is formed by the differences in the specific instances of these concepts that are present in the family members. These component frameworks have a number of similarities, allowing a standardised approach to their development. They support the division of the system into a generic architectural skeleton, which can be extended with plug-ins to realise specific family members, each with their own set of features

Keywords

medical image processing; object-oriented programming; software architecture; software reusability; architectural approach; architectural elements; component based development; component frameworks; embedded system markets; family architecture; family members; generic architectural skeleton; medical imaging product family; plug-ins; product family architecture; standardised approach; Biomedical imaging; Costs; Embedded system; Laboratories; Permission; Security; Skeleton; Software safety; Testing; Time to market;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering, 2000. Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Limerick

ISSN

0270-5257

Print_ISBN

1-58113-206-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSE.2000.870396

Filename

870396