Software Architecture
Software Architecture Overview
• Extensibility
• Environments
• Architectural Styles
• Real Systems
Software Architecture Research
• Architecture-based Design
• Architecture Description Languages
 • Product Line Architectures
 • Architecture-based Security & Trust
• Architectural Styles
 • Internet Scale Architectures
 • Decentralized Architectures
• Self-Adaptive, Healing Architectures
•  Architecture to Implementation
Projects
• Apigen
• ArchEvol
• ArchStudio 4
• EASEL
• PACE
• xADL 2.0
• Legacy Projects
People
• Richard N. Taylor
• David F. Redmiles
• André van der Hoek
Publications
Institute for Software Research
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-3455, USA
arch@ics.uci.edu

Legacy Projects

This page details legacy software projects that have been developed at UCI. For our current projects, please see our current software page.

ArchShell

[LEGACY] ArchShell is a command line tool which will allow you to build architectures and add tools on the fly. It shows how architectures can respond dynamically to changes in the system. Here are some instructions on how to run this tool using this example.

ArchStudio 2.0

[LEGACY] ArchStudio 2.0 is the previous demo version of an integrated architectural design environment. ArchStudio 2.0 pioneered the integration of architectural tools in a single design environment and also the use of XML to store and maintain architectural information in the form of a dtd based ADL called xADL 1.0.

ArchStudio 2.0 Demo

[LEGACY] ArchStudio2.0 software download, leads to the software for the ArchStudio 2.0 architectural design environment demo. The purpose of this demo was to integrate a number of different tools we developed for C2 in a Architecture based IDE simulation. This shows how a C2 system may dynamically alter its architecture quick on the fly and how these changes to a running system are incorporated in the C2 style.

This demo includes the XML based shared ADL which is itself a general ADL with C2 attachments. This means that any architectural system could adopt the ADL — it is designed to be general and not C2 specific.

Argo

[LEGACY] Other work initiated at UCI on Software Architecture has included the Argo Design Environment, a graphical design environment for constructing, analyzing, and generating UML designs or C2 architectures. This project lead to investigations related to the efficaciousness of UML as a practical starting point for architecture description.

ArgoUML

[LEGACY] ArgoUML is a graphical design environment for constructing, analyzing, and generating UML diagrams. It was originally developed at UCI, but is now externally maintained. Argo's Graph Editing Framework

c2.fw

[LEGACY] c2.fw is the latest Java framework for implementing C2 components. It is currently only available in the the ArchStudio 3.0 release.

DASADA Project

[LEGACY] DASADA - Dynamic Assembly for Systems Adaptability, Dependability, and Assurance

Simple Stack Application with the C2 Class Frameworks

[LEGACY] The C2 style focuses on the conceptual architecture of a system, independently of a particular implementation architecture. UCI's Java and C++ class frameworks for C2 concepts, such as components, connectors, and messages, provide development support for implementing C2 architectures in Java and C++. Components, connectors, and messages are explicitly represented as objects. Components may have their own memory space and thread(s) of control, or may share with other components. Components may run on different machines in a network. Architectures may be dynamically reconfigured.

KLAX

[LEGACY] KLAX is a remake of an old Atari video game written in C2. It is included in ArchStudio 3.0. A regular version of KLAX and a spelling version of KLAX is available.

KLAX Screenshot
Screenshot 		KLAX Architecture
Architecture 		KLAX Implementation
Implementation 		KLAX To-do
To-Do

Ménage

[LEGACY] Ménage is a Java-based environment for managing evolving product line architectures. It includes diagram editing facilities that are compatible with xADL 2.0 architecture descriptions.

Visio for C2/xADL

[LEGACY] Visio for C2/xADL is a plugin to Microsoft Visio that allows editing of C2 diagrams in Visio and tight integration with ArchStudio. It requires ArchStudio 3.0.
This material is based upon work sponsored by a variety of agencies and sources, including the National Science Foundation under Grant No.s 0205724, 0430066, 0438996, and 0524033, the Boeing Company, and, previously, the Air Force Materiel Command, Rome Laboratory, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under Contract Number F30602-94-C-0218. The content of the information does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the Government or any sponsor and no official endorsement should be inferred. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.