Architecture Description Markup Language (ADML) Version 1

The Architecture Desription Markup Language (ADML) is an XML-based representation language for architecture that was developed by the Micro-electronics and Computer technology Consortium (MCC) as part of its Software and Systems Engineering Productivity (SSEP) project. ADML has been used by MCC in collaboration with The Open Group to develop a proof of concept for a Building Blocks Description Language (BBDL). The Open Group intends this work to provide a means of defining architectual building blocks to be captured, and that allows real products to be conformance tested and procured to fulfil the defined functions. ADML is directly based on ACME, an architecture description language. The principal development work for ACME was done by David Garlan, Bob Monroe, and Drew Kompanek at Carnegie Mellon University, and Dave Wile at USC's Information Sciences Institute. ADML adds to ACME a standardization representation (parsable by ordinary XML parsers), the ability to define links to objects outside the architecture (such as rationale, designs, components, etc.), straightforward ability to interface with commercial repositories, and transparent extensibility.

Bibliographic Details

TOGAF Documentation

Catalog number I901
Apr 2000

50 pages.

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