MIP-0711

Paper Description

BibTeX entry

@incollection{MIP-0711,
author="S. Apel, C. Lengauer",
title="Superimposition: A Language-Independent Approach to Software Composition",
institution="Fakult{\a"}t f{\u"}r Informatik und Mathematik, Universit{\a"}t Passau,
year=2007,
number={MIP-0711}
}

Abstract

Superimposition is a composition technique that has been applied successfully in several areas of software development. In order to unify several languages and tools that rely on superimposition, we present an underlying language-independent model that is based on feature structure trees (FSTs). Furthermore, we offer a tool, called FST-COMPOSER, that composes software components represented by FSTs. Currently, the tool supports the composition of components written in Java or Jak. Three non-trivial case studies demonstrate the practicality of our approach. Finally, we outline how FSTCOMPOSER has to be extended in order to compose components containing artifacts written in different languages.

Paper itself

MIP-0711.pdf