Connectors

• Components can interact in a variety of ways at various levels of abstraction

  • Subprogram invocation
  • Interprocess communication
  • Exception handlers
  • Network communication protocols

• A connector denotes the manner of interaction; hence, it describes behavior rather than structure

• It may not be reified in the code

• Thus, it is the reader's job to infer connectors

• Examples

  • Communication protocols
  • Predicate logic
  • Path expressions

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