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System Assembly Connectors

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After putting components into assembly contexts (from which provided and required context roles can be derived) they can be connected by using system assembly connectors. A system assembly connector connects a required role in of a component in a given assembly context with the provided role of a component in a different assembly context 3.1. The meaning of the connector is that any call of the client component using the required role involved will be routed to the provided role of the server component.

Connectors are important entities when it comes to checking of interoperability classes. The minimum requirement a connector has to fulfil is that the interface of the provided role is a supertype of the required role. This automatically implies semantic conformance of the interfaces (compare section [*]).



Snowball 2007-03-16