Connector Based Metamodel For Architecture Description Language

To provide hierarchical description from different software architectural viewpoints we needmore than one abstraction hierarchy and connection mechanisms to support the interactions amongcomponents. Also, these mechanisms will support the refinement and traceability of architecturalelements through the different levels of each hierarchy. Current methods and tools provide poor supportfor the challenge posed by developing system using hierarchical description. This paper describes anarchitecture-centric approach allowing the user to describe the logical architecture view where a physicalarchitecture view is generated automatically for all application instances of the logical architecture