Architecture description language
Different communities use the term architecture description language. Some important communities are the system engineering community, the software engineering community and the enterprise modelling and engineering community
In the system engineering community, an Architecture Description Language (ADL) is a language and/or conceptual model used to describe and represent system architectures.
Examples
Below the list gives the candidates for being the best ADL until now.
| Primary candidates | ACME / ADML (CMU/USC), ADML, Rapide (Stanford), Wright (CMU), Unicon (CMU), ByADL (Build Your ADL), LePUS3 and Class-Z, ABACUS (UTS) |
| Secondary candidates | Aesop (CMU), MetaH (Honeywell), AADL (SAE), C2 SADL (UCI), SADL (SRI) |
| Others (unclassified) | Lileanna, Dually, ArchC, AO-ADL, ArchiMate, DAOP-ADL, DEMO, DiaSpec, SSEP, Unicon, xADL |