Framework Description Using Concern-Specific Design Patterns Composition

Abstract

This paper proposes an approach to object-oriented framework description. Frameworks are described using concern-specific design patterns and their composition. The frameworks understandability is achieved by the separate description of concern variations and by the description of inter-concern combinations of those variations. Both descriptions are independent of implementation details. The technical innovations are based on using design patterns for describing concern variations and on using design patterns compositions for describing variations compositions. © 2000, ACM. All rights reserved.