A Complex Meta-model for Extra-Functional Properties Concerning Common Data Types: Their Comparing and Binding

Abstract

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and components as technologies for rapid development still have not reached their maturity. One of the insufficiently explored areas is the one of a selection of a service or a component in terms of extra-functional properties. A lot of current approaches partly target extra-functional properties but do not provide a meta-model that would cover aspects such as the definition of properties, their assignment and their evaluation. Their practical application is limited, because a lot of specialized partial approaches may hardly be put together. In this work we propose a general and loosely coupled meta-model that covers all above mentioned aspects. The model is useful for developers to create a complete extra-functional support in applications.