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Component Type

Description

Components behave in identifiable, distinct ways, and they also interact with other components in similarly distinct and identifiable ways. These distinctions separate components into categories, or types. A component type captures the semantics of a component's behavior, the kind of functionality it implements, its performance characteristics, and its expectations of the style of interaction with other components.

Every component definition has a type. In UniCon, there are eight pre-defined component types. The specification of the type comes as the first UniCon statement inside a component interface.

Syntax

The following is the syntax for specifying a component type:

  <component_type> :== 
    Module
    | Computation
    | SharedData
    | SeqFile
    | Filter
    | Process
    | SchedProcess
    | General

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Author: Gregory Zelesnik

Last Modified: May 12, 1996