A product line architecture for web applications

Increasingly, Web applications are used in similar environments to fulfill similar tasks. Sharing a common infrastructure and reusing assets to deploy recurrent services may be considered an advantage in terms of economic significance and overall quality. Thus, it may be appropriate to design web applications as members of a product family. The paper illustrates Koriandol, a product-line architecture designed to develop, deploy and maintain web application families. In contrast with usual component-based systems, Koriandol prescribes that variability handling mechanisms are reflective and built-in into the components.