On the Interplay of Aspects and Dynamic Reconfiguration in a Specification-to-Deployment Environment

Authors:
Thais Batista;Antônio T. Gomes;Geoff Coulson;Christina Chavez;Alessandro Garcia
Affiliations:
Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal, Brazil;National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), Petrópolis, Brazil;Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK;Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, Brazil;Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Venue:
ECSA '08 Proceedings of the 2nd European conference on Software Architecture
Year:
2008

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose the application of concepts from aspect-oriented software development to facilitate modular treatment of dynamic reconfiguration descriptions in specification-to-deployment environments. Our strategy differs from earlier work in the area by blending aspects and architecture abstractions simply and seamlessly through a special kind of connector --called an aspectual connector-- that encapsulates reconfiguration interactions. More specifically, we propose an aspect-oriented specification-to-deployment environment, called AO-Plastik, that uses our AspectualAcme ADL to specify dynamic reconfiguration by means of aspectual connectors, and maps these specifications onto a reflective component runtime platform.