Towards Multiple Access in Generic Component Architectures 1

The paper introduces an abstract framework for the specification of components with multiple require and provide interfaces that allows the specification of multiple access to a single provide interface. This framework can be regarded as a generalization of abstract hierarchical and connector-based component specification approaches. The main ideas are clarified in a sample specification, a component architecture for a web browser suite. For this, elementary nets are applied and are shown to be an instantiation of the abstract framework.