Dynamic and selective combination of extensions in component-based applications Export

@proceedings{citeulike:3032359, abstract = {Support for dynamic and client-specific customization is required in many application areas. We present a (distributed) application as consisting of a minimal functional core, implemented as a component based system, and an unbound set of potential extensions that can be selectively integrated within this core functionality. An extension to this core may be a new service due to new requirements of end users. Another important category of extensions we consider are non-functional services such as authentication, which typically introduce interaction refinements at the application level. In accordance with the separation of concerns principle, each extension is implemented as a layer of mixin-like wrappers. Each wrapper incrementally adds behavior and state to a core component instance from the outside, without modifying the component's implementation. The novelty of this work is that the composition logic, responsible for integrating extensions into the core system, is externalized from the code of clients, core system and extensions. Clients (end users, system integrators) can customize this composition logic on a per collaboration basis by 'attaching' high-level interpretable extension identifiers to their interactions with the core system.}, author = {Truyen, E. and Vanhaute, B. and Joosen, W. and Verbaeten, P. and Jorgensen, B. N.}, booktitle = {Software Engineering, 2001. ICSE 2001. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on}, citeulike-article-id = {3032359}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2001.919097}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=919097}, doi = {10.1109/ICSE.2001.919097}, journal = {Software Engineering, 2001. ICSE 2001. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on}, keywords = {component, composition, nonfunctional-requirements}, pages = {233--242}, posted-at = {2008-07-22 10:14:17}, priority = {4}, title = {Dynamic and selective combination of extensions in component-based applications}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2001.919097}, year = {2001} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3032359 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3032359 N2 - Support for dynamic and client-specific customization is required in many application areas. We present a (distributed) application as consisting of a minimal functional core, implemented as a component based system, and an unbound set of potential extensions that can be selectively integrated within this core functionality. An extension to this core may be a new service due to new requirements of end users. Another important category of extensions we consider are non-functional services such as authentication, which typically introduce interaction refinements at the application level. In accordance with the separation of concerns principle, each extension is implemented as a layer of mixin-like wrappers. Each wrapper incrementally adds behavior and state to a core component instance from the outside, without modifying the component's implementation. The novelty of this work is that the composition logic, responsible for integrating extensions into the core system, is externalized from the code of clients, core system and extensions. Clients (end users, system integrators) can customize this composition logic on a per collaboration basis by 'attaching' high-level interpretable extension identifiers to their interactions with the core system. JF - Software Engineering, 2001. ICSE 2001. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on EP - 242 TI - Dynamic and selective combination of extensions in component-based applications T2 - Software Engineering, 2001. ICSE 2001. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on SP - 233 KW - component KW - composition KW - nonfunctional-requirements AU - Truyen, E AU - Vanhaute, B AU - Joosen, W AU - Verbaeten, P AU - Jorgensen, BN PY - 2001/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2001.919097 ER -