A Framework to Support the Development of Collaborative Components.

In this paper, a framework to support the development of collaborative components is presented. The role of a collaborative component is to support the inter-working among components through their interfaces. By focusing on the behaviors of the collaborative components, the interaction between components can be independently verified and validated. The proposed framework includes: (1) the structural and architecture models of collaborative components; (2) the choreography models to specify the behaviors of the collaborative components; and (3) the orchestration models to specify the behaviors of component types that participate in the inter-working. The orchestration models are created by model transformations from the architecture and choreography models. The created components are placed in the repository so that they can be re-used and composed together.