Framework Design: A Role Modeling Approach

Dirk Riehle
Dissertation No. 13509, ETH Zürich.
Copyright 1999, 2000, Dirk Riehle. All rights reserved.

Abstract (Short Form)

This dissertation presents role modeling for framework design. Role modeling makes designing, learning, and using object-oriented frameworks easier than possible with traditional class-based approaches, because role modeling for framework design reduces class complexity and object collaboration complexity, and improves clarity of requirements put on use-clients. The dissertation extends class-based modeling with role modeling concepts and introduces frameworks as explicit design and implementation artifacts with well-defined boundaries. The dissertation's claims are validated with the help of three case studies that show how role modeling for framework design works in practice.

As HTML

• Abstract or Kurzfassung (Abstract in German)
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Frameworks, Related Work, and Thesis Statement
• Chapter 3: Role Modeling
• Chapter 4: Framework Design
• Chapter 5: Extension of Industry Standards
• Chapter 6: Case Study: The Geo Object Framework
• Chapter 7: Case Study: The KMU Desktop Tools Framework
• Chapter 8: Case Study: The JHotDraw Framework
• Chapter 9: Thesis Validation
• Chapter 10: Conclusions
• Appendix A: References
• Appendix B: Glossary
• Appendix C: Notation Guide
• Appendix D: Design Patterns
• Appendix E: Pointers to Further Material

As PDF

• DinA4, Acrobat 3.0, screen-optimized.
• Letter, Acrobat 3.0, screen-optimized.
• Erratum.

Addendum

• Framework Design and UML 1.X.

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