Dinapter: Automatic Adapter Specification for Software Composition

Enterprise systems rely heavily on compositional software like Software Components or Web Services. The composition of this software allows software reusability, greater productivity and reduced costs. However, these components are black-boxes and their direct reuse is prevented by incompatibilities between their interfaces. There are several approaches focused on Software Adaptation which are capable of solving incompatibilities at signature and behavioral levels, but these approaches require abstract specifications which specify how the incompatibilities can be resolved. The generation of these specifications is an open issue and specifications are normally handmade, which forces the designer to understand the subtleties of the components. In this paper we present Dinapter, a tool that automatically generates specifications being given the component behavioral descriptions written in abstract BPEL. Dinapter complements the aforementioned approaches and allows the automatic adaptation of compositional software.