Data Encapsulation in Component-based Software Systems

Kung-Kiu Lau and Faris M. Taweel
School of Computer Science
The University of Manchester
Manchester M13 9PL, UK
kung-kiu,ftaweel@cs.man.ac.uk

Abstract:

A component-based system consists of components linked by
 connectors. Data can reside in components and/or in
external data stores. Operations on data, such as access, update
and transfer are carried out during computations performed by
components. Typically, in current component models, control,
computation and data are mixed up in the components, while control
and data are both communicated by the connectors. As a result,
such systems are tightly coupled, making reasoning difficult. In
this report we demonstrate an approach for encapsulating data.