A Reflective Framework for Fine-Grained Adaptation of Aspect-Oriented Compositions Export

@incollection{citeulike:3273220, abstract = {Dynamic Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) technologies typically provide coarse-grained mechanisms for adapting aspects that cross-cut a system deployment; i.e. whole aspect modules can be added and removed at runtime. However, in this paper we demonstrate that adaptation of the finer-grained elements of individual aspect modules is required in highly dynamic systems and applications. We present AspectOpenCOM, a principled, reflection-based component framework that provides a meta object protocol capable of fine-grained adaptation of deployed aspects. We then evaluate this solution by eliciting a set of requirements for dynamic fine-grained adaptation from a series of case studies, and illustrate how the framework successfully meets these criteria. We also investigate the performance gains of fine-grained adaptation versus a coarse-grained approach.}, author = {Grace, Paul and Lagaisse, Bert and Truyen, Eddy and Joosen, Wouter}, citeulike-article-id = {3273220}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78789-1_17}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/rrh5647613227205}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-78789-1_17}, journal = {Software Composition}, pages = {215--230}, posted-at = {2008-09-16 14:28:39}, priority = {2}, title = {A Reflective Framework for Fine-Grained Adaptation of Aspect-Oriented Compositions}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78789-1_17}, year = {2008} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:3273220 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3273220 N2 - Dynamic Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) technologies typically provide coarse-grained mechanisms for adapting aspects that cross-cut a system deployment; i.e. whole aspect modules can be added and removed at runtime. However, in this paper we demonstrate that adaptation of the finer-grained elements of individual aspect modules is required in highly dynamic systems and applications. We present AspectOpenCOM, a principled, reflection-based component framework that provides a meta object protocol capable of fine-grained adaptation of deployed aspects. We then evaluate this solution by eliciting a set of requirements for dynamic fine-grained adaptation from a series of case studies, and illustrate how the framework successfully meets these criteria. We also investigate the performance gains of fine-grained adaptation versus a coarse-grained approach. JF - Software Composition EP - 230 TI - A Reflective Framework for Fine-Grained Adaptation of Aspect-Oriented Compositions SP - 215 AU - Grace, Paul AU - Lagaisse, Bert AU - Truyen, Eddy AU - Joosen, Wouter PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78789-1_17 ER -