Procedure Calls Are the Assembly Language of Software Interconnection: Connectors Deserve First-Class Status

January 1994 • Technical Report

Mary Shaw

This 1994 report elevates the relations among software system components to first-class entities of the system, entitled to their own specifications and abstractions.

Publisher:

Software Engineering Institute

CMU/SEI Report Number

CMU/SEI-94-TR-002

DOI (Digital Object Identifier):

10.1184/R1/6582254.v1

Abstract

Software designers compose systems from components written in some programming language. They regularly describe systems using abstract patterns and sophisticated relations among components. However, the configuration tools at their disposal restrict them to composition mechanisms directly supported by the programming language. To remedy this lack of expressiveness, we must elevate the relations among components to first-class entities of the system, entitled to their own specifications and abstractions.

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SEI

Shaw, Mary. Procedure Calls Are the Assembly Language of Software Interconnection: Connectors Deserve First-Class Status. CMU/SEI-94-TR-002 . Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. 1994. http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=12137

IEEE

Shaw. Mary, "Procedure Calls Are the Assembly Language of Software Interconnection: Connectors Deserve First-Class Status," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Report CMU/SEI-94-TR-002 , 1994. http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=12137

APA

Shaw, Mary. (1994). Procedure Calls Are the Assembly Language of Software Interconnection: Connectors Deserve First-Class Status (CMU/SEI-94-TR-002 ). Retrieved May 22, 2022, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=12137

CHI

Mary Shaw. Procedure Calls Are the Assembly Language of Software Interconnection: Connectors Deserve First-Class Status (CMU/SEI-94-TR-002 ). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1994. http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=12137

MLA

Shaw, Mary. 1994. Procedure Calls Are the Assembly Language of Software Interconnection: Connectors Deserve First-Class Status (Technical Report CMU/SEI-94-TR-002 ). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=12137

BibTex

@techreport{ShawProcedureCalls1994,
title={Procedure Calls Are the Assembly Language of Software Interconnection: Connectors Deserve First-Class Status},
author={Mary Shaw},
year={1994},
number={CMU/SEI-94-TR-002 },
institution={Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University},
address={Pittsburgh, PA},
url={http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=12137} }

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