Reusing Families Design

Designing the detailed architecture of a style or of an architectural family is a difficult task. However, it offers great benefits for the product architectures detailed design based on this style or family. The present work proposes a meta-model for the development of applications with layered architectural style and distributed with the middleware CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture). The meta-model offers all the intrinsic information to this family of systems, from the architectural to the detailed level. It has been specified in UML (Unified Modeling Language) and the formal language Z was used to specify some constraints and allow the integration of the meta-model to ZCL, a formal framework to specify and reason about dynamic software architectures. This initiative provides the guidelines that can be followed to detail other styles and families