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International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security (국제컴퓨터통신보호논문지학회)
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JarBot: Automated Java Libraries Suggestion in JAR Archives Format for a given Software Architecture

  • P. Pirapuraj (Department of Information & Communication technology, Faculty of Technology, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka) ;
  • Indika Perera (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering University of Moratuwa)
  • Received : 2024.05.05
  • Published : 2024.05.30
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Abstract

Software reuse gives the meaning for rapid software development and the quality of the software. Most of the Java components/libraries open-source are available only in Java Archive (JAR) file format. When a software design enters into the development process, the developer needs to select necessary JAR files manually via analyzing the given software architecture and related JAR files. This paper proposes an automated approach, JarBot, to suggest all the necessary JAR files for given software architecture in the development process. All related JAR files will be downloaded from the internet based on the extracted information from the given software architecture (class diagram). Class names, method names, and attribute names will be extracted from the downloaded JAR files and matched with the information extracted from the given software architecture to identify the most relevant JAR files. For the result and evaluation of the proposed system, 05 software design was developed for 05 well-completed software project from GitHub. The proposed system suggested more than 95% of the JAR files among expected JAR files for the given 05 software design. The result indicated that the proposed system is suggesting almost all the necessary JAR files.

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