Model-based generation of business component architectures

The definition of business component architecture represents a challenging goal in component-based software engineering. Despite the several approaches to this subject, difficulties still arise when designing and assembling components to provide an integrated solution. The problem we focus on this work is the absence of rules that make use of analysis models to guide the architect throughout the specification of a component-based architecture. This lack of support results in a series of laborious and nonautomated activities. In order to increase the abstraction level of the business component architecture specification task and reduce design efforts, this work presents a practical proposal aimed at generating business components from analysis models. To achieve this goal, some rules and procedures have been researched and evolved, guiding the software architect during the development process.