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At ADL level, most of the current interaction protocols designed to specify components’ behavior at their interfaces do not allow to capture exceptions explicitly. Based on our experience with real-life component based applications, handling exceptions as first class entities in a (formal) behavior specification is an absolute necessity. Otherwise, due to the need to capture exceptions indirectly, the specification becomes very complex, therefore hard to read and, consequently, error-prone. After analyzing potential approaches to introducing exceptions to LTS-based interaction specification (expressed via terms/expressions) in ADL, the paper presents the way we built exceptions into the behavior protocols. Finally, we discuss the positive experience with applying these exception-aware behavior protocols to a real-life Fractal component model application.
This work was partially supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic project 201/06/0770; the results will be used in the OSIRIS/ITEA project.
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Plasil, F., Holub, V. (2006). Exceptions in Component Interaction Protocols – Necessity. In: Reussner, R.H., Stafford, J.A., Szyperski, C.A. (eds) Architecting Systems with Trustworthy Components. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3938. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11786160_13
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