Concrete Architecture of Mozilla Firefox (version 2.0.0.3)

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Concrete Architecture of Mozilla Firefox
(version 2.0.0.3)
SEng 422 Assignment 2
Dr. Ahmed E. Hassan
July 4, 2007
Iris Lai
Jared Haines
John,Chun-Hung,Chiu
Josh Fairheadi
Table of Contents
ABSTRACT ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 1
INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 1
MODIFIED CONCEPTUAL ARCHITECTURE OF MOZILLA FIREFOX ………………………………… 1
CONCRETE ARCHITECTURE OF MOZILLA FIREFOX ………………………………………………………… 3
MAJOR SUBSYSTEMS IN FIREFOX ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4
Runtime ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4
Utility ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4
User Interface …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 4
Gecko ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4
Display Backend …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 4
Data Persistence …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 5
XML Parser………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 5
JavaScript ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 5
NECKO CONCRETE ARCHITECTURE …………………………………………………………………………………… 5
NETWORK SERVICE ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 6
PROTOCOL HANDLER ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 7
SOCKET TRANSPORT ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 7
STREAM CONVERTER ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 7
SECURITY ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 7
URL HANDLER………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 8
NECKO UTILITY……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 8
DNS…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 8
Cookie ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 8
MIME………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 8
Cache ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 9
INTERFACE ARCHITECTURE IN NECKO ……………………………………………………………………………… 9
HANDLING DOWNLOADS IN NECKO…………………………………………………………………………………… 10
NECKO CONCEPTUAL ARCHITECTURE VS. CONCRETE ARCHITECTURE……………………. 12
DESIGN PATTERNS AND ARCHITECTURE STYLES …………………………………………………………… 12
DESIGN PATTERNS………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 12
ARCHITECTURE STYLES …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 13
CONCLUSION………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 13
GLOSSARY…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 14
REFERENCES ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 15
List of Figures
Figure 1 Modified Conceptual Architecture …………………………………………………………….. 2
Figure 2 Firefox Concrete Architecture…………………………………………………………………… 3
Figure 3 Necko Concrete Architecture ……………………………………………………………………. 6
Figure 4 The interface architecture of networking in Necko…………………………………….. 10
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