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Using a Lightweight Workflow Engine in a Plugin-Based Product Line Architecture

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Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE 2006)

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This paper presents a software product line architecture where applications are assembled by installing a set of plugins on a common software base. In this architecture, the software base embeds a lightweight workflow engine that guides the main flow of control and data of the application. This architecture eliminates the problem of scattered flow of data and control and facilitates plugin substitution. This architecture is currently being used to build a biomedical engineering research application on top of the Eclipse platform.

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  1. Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa (UAM-I), San Rafael Atlixco Nº 186, Col. Vicentina, C.P. 09340, Iztapalapa, D.F., Mexico

    Humberto Cervantes & Sonia Charleston-Villalobos

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  1. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Computational and Information Sciences, MS: K7-90,, PO Box 999,, 99352, Richland, WA, USA

    Ian Gorton

  2. Department of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 100 Institute Road, 01609, Worcester, MA, USA

    George T. Heineman

  3. School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden

    Ivica Crnković

  4. Centre for Distributed Systems and Software Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

    Heinz W. Schmidt

  5. Computer Science, Tufts University, Boston, 161 College Avenue, 02155, Medford, MA, USA

    Judith A. Stafford

  6. Microsoft, USA

    Clemens Szyperski

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Cervantes, H., Charleston-Villalobos, S. (2006). Using a Lightweight Workflow Engine in a Plugin-Based Product Line Architecture. In: Gorton, I., et al. Component-Based Software Engineering. CBSE 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4063. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11783565_14

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