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

Projects

At UCI, we have written a number of freely available tools to assist in development of software using sound architectural principles. For information on older software architecture projects developed at UCI, please see our legacy software page.

Apigen

Apigen is an XML schema-to-Java data binding generator for xArch schemas that automatically generate those libraries based only on the XML schemas.

ArchEvol

ArchEvol unifies architectural development with implementation by providing the means of maintaining a consistent linking between architectural and source code entities throughout software evolution. ArchEvol does not solve the problem of consistency between architecture and implementation by itself, but instead provides the necessary tool support.

ArchStudio 3.0

ArchStudio 3 is an architecture-driven software development environment written in Java. It is designed to provide a number of well-integrated tools to promote sound software architecture practices. While ArchStudio is written in the C2 architectural style, it can model many different architectural styles. ArchStudio 3.0 contains the latest version of the c2.fw framework and KLAX. It includes support for the xADL 2.0 architecture description language. You may download the latest version of our software from the Software Update page.

EASEL

EASEL is a layer-based design environment. While many environments have focused primarily on documenting a design (i.e. after it has been created), the goal of EASEL is to support a designer in the activity of designing: a naturally iterative process consisting of creatively constructing, evaluating, and improving alternatives that eventually coalesce into a single, desired solution.

PACE

PACE is an architectural style for trust management in decentralized applications. PACE provides a set of principles and constraints that provide comprehensive guidance on what trust components to include, how to place these components appropriately within the architecture of a decentralized entity, and how these components should interact for effective trust management.

xADL 2.0

xADL 2.0 is a set of libraries that provide a convenient interface in Java to xArch and xADL 2.0 extensions.

 
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.