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Markus Won, Volker Wulf

A cooperative and easy-to-learn Tailoring Environment for component-based architectures

The paper describes a tailoring environment which allows for run-time adaptions of component-based software. The tailoring language can be used on different levels of complexity. Cooperative aspects like the exchange of tailoring artifacts between users or descriptions are integrated. A search tool for group-ware was implemented where users can tailor their own tool according to their needs. During a field study in a public administration organization we got to know about problems the users had when building their own tools or using tools which were built by colleagues. Based on this analysis we developed four different con-cepts that ease the individual as well as the collaborative learning of our tailoring language and the tailoring environment. The individual learning was supported by a semi-automatic integrity check. In order to support collaborative learning aspects we introduced an exploration environment and the possibility to annotate and therefore describe own compositions. Both concepts are designed to enforce the communication between users during the learning and tailoring process.

i-com, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag

Print ISSN: 1618-162X
Volume: 02, 01/2003
Pages: 028

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