Development and evaluation of MicroBuilder: a Model-Driven tool for the specification of REST Microservice Software Architectures. Issue 8 (21st October 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Terzić, Branko; Dimitrieski, Vladimir; Kordić, Slavica; Milosavljević, Gordana; Luković, Ivan
• Is Part Of: Enterprise information systems. Volume 12:Issue 8/9(2018)
• Page Start: 1034
• Page End: 1057
• Publication Date: 2018-10-21
• Subjects: Microservice Software Architecture -- Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) -- Domain-Specific Language -- Ecore -- Spring Boot -- Evaluation Study; Information storage and retrieval systems -- Periodicals; Management information systems -- Periodicals; Electronic commerce -- Periodicals; 658.4038011
• DOI: 10.1080/17517575.2018.1460766
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1751-7575

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In this paper we present MicroBuilder, the tool used for the specification of a software architecture that follows REST microservice design principles. MicroBuilder comprises MicroDSL and MicroGenerator modules. The MicroDSL module provides the MicroDSL domain-specific language used for the specification of REST microservice software architecture. In this paper we present MicroDSL meta-model, specified in Ecore, together with textual and graphical concrete syntaxes, specified using Xtext and Sirius frameworks respectively. The MicroGenerator module is used to generate executable program code based on MicroDSL specification. In this paper we also present results of the MicroBuilder tool evaluation, alongside the case study which illustrates a usage of MicroBuilder.