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The architecture of a software system shows how the system is realized by a collection of components together with the interactions among these components. Conventional design focuses the components, but the properties of the system depend critically on the character of the interactions. Although software designers have good informal abstractions for these interactions, these abstractions are poorly supported by the available languages and tools. As a result, the choice of interaction is often defaulted or made implicitly rather than deliberately chosen. Further, interactions are usually programmed in terms of underlying mechanisms rather than the designers natural abstractions. UniCon supports a rich selection of abstractions for the connectors that mediate interactions among components. Connector implementation presents special challenges. The "compiler" must produce and integrate not only the object code …