ArchitecturalTemplates

The Architectural Template method is an efficient design-time engineering method for analyzing scalability, elasticity, and efficiency properties of SaaS applications. This method quantifies such properties based on reusable analysis templates — so called Architectural Templates. CloudScale includes the Architectural Template language in ScaleDL and provides a catalogue of Architectural Templates specified in this language. CloudScale’s Architectural Templates manifest all quality-relevant characteristics intrinsic to given cloud computing environments. Architects only have to fill-in the parts specific to their concrete SaaS application.

Eclipse Update Sites

Nightly Build

• http://cloudscale.xlab.si/cse/updatesites/architecturaltemplates/nightly/

Architectural Template Catalogue

In CloudScale, we collected Architectural Templates for designing and analyzing scalable, elastic, and efficient SaaS applications.

Description for all templates in CloudScale Wiki:

• http://wiki.cloudscale-project.eu/index.php/HowTos

Plugin with all template resources:

• org.scaledl.architecturaltemplates.repositories.cloudscale

Example applications of Architectural Templates

Feature

• org.scaledl.architecturaltemplates.examples.feature

Included Plugins

• org.scaledl.architecturaltemplates.examples.aliceandbob
• org.scaledl.architecturaltemplates.examples.dynscalingassemblycontext
• org.scaledl.architecturaltemplates.examples.dynscalingcontainer
• org.scaledl.architecturaltemplates.examples.dynverticalscaling
• org.scaledl.architecturaltemplates.examples.staticassemblycontext
• org.scaledl.architecturaltemplates.examples.staticresourcecontainer

Develop Architectural Templates

1. Download and install Eclipse Modeling Tools
2. Download and install Eclipse plugin dependencies for Architectural Templates development.
   • Go to Eclipse->Help->Install New Software
   • Add Architectural Templates nightly update site: "http://cloudscale.xlab.si/cse/updatesites/architecturaltemplates/nightly/".
   • Install Architectural Templates feature.
3. Clone repository $ git clone https://github.com/CloudScale-Project/ArchitecturalTemplates.git
4. Import Architectural Templates plugins, under "plugins/" directory, into the workbench.

Core Features of Architectural Templates

Features

• org.scaledl.architecturaltemplates.feature
• org.scaledl.architecturaltemplates.buckminster

Included Plugins

• org.scaledl.architecturaltemplates
• org.scaledl.architecturaltemplates.edit
• org.scaledl.architecturaltemplates.editor
• org.scaledl.architecturaltemplates.completion.jobs

UI Features of Architectural Templates

Features

• org.palladiosimulator.editors.feature

Included Plugins

• org.palladiosimulator.editors.composedprovidingrequiringentity.design
• org.palladiosimulator.editors.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.extension
• org.palladiosimulator.editors.util