Modern application development encompasses a wide range of areas, spanning from high-level user-interface markup to low-level server and systems programming. These applications employ various multiparadigm techniques, predominantly drawing from architectural patterns rooted in Object-Oriented Programming and to a lesser extent, Functional Programming. Although several architectural patterns emerge, they often fall under just one Software Engineering subdiscipline, including State Management (SM), Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE), and Incremental Computation (IC). However, these subdisciplines often remain isolated from each other, resulting in applications that rely on software libraries and frameworks that adhere to a singular approach. We introduce ReArch, a reactive and highly functional approach for designing an application architecture that provides a solution to SM, CBSE, and IC. ReArch includes novel innovations that support the composition of application code and arbitrary side effects, all while keeping application code functionally pure. ReArch has already been used to develop multiple production-grade applications across a variety of application domains, demonstrating its wide applicability. Going forward, ReArch will continue to provide applications with loose code coupling, maintainability, and testability by design.

Creator

• Conrad, Gregory

Contributors

• Cuneo, Joshua
• Heineman, George T.

Degree

• MS

Unit

• Computer Science

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• etd-115098

Keyword

• Software Architecture
• Incremental Computation
• State Management
• Functional Programming
• Component-Based Software Engineering

Advisor

• Heineman, George T.

Defense date

• 2023-12-08

Year

• 2023

Date created

• 2023-12-13

Resource type

• Thesis

Source

• etd-115098

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2024-01-25