  Combining component & connector architecture
descriptionlanguageswithcomponentbehaviormodelinglanguages enables modeling
great parts of software architectures platformindependently. Nontrivial systems
typically contain components with programming language behavior descriptions to
interface with APIs. These components tie the complete software architecture to
a specific platform and thus hamper reuse. Previous work on software
architecture reuse with multiple platforms either requires platform-specific
handcrafting or the effort of explicit platform models. We present an automated
approach to transform platform-independent, logical software architectures into
architectures with platform-specific components. This approach introduces
abstract components to the platform-independent architecture and refines the se
with components specific to the target platform prior to code generation.
Consequently, a single logical software architecture model can be reused with
multiple target platforms, which increases architecture maturity and reduces
the maintenance effort of multiple similar software architectures.
