Treffer: L.: ’Architectural Recovery of JBoss Application Server

This report addresses analysis of the architecture of an object-oriented system written in Java -JBoss Application Server. By selecting this case study, we follow two major objectives. First, we want to use object-oriented entities as building blocks of software architecture. Second, due to success of JBoss as an open source J2EE platform in the market and among developers, and its high modular and scalable design, it is an apt case study for Software Architectural Recovery. In a nutshell, we aim to make a bridge from object-oriented system hierarchy and its design rules to generic building blocks, relations, and architectural rules in JBoss Application Server. We propose how a subset of object-oriented design rules is able to evaluate architecture of a software system in terms of maintainability and reusability. We also propose a set of hypothesis describing a lightweight methodology to express the architectural flaws of JBoss system based on source code analysis approach.