FORMAware: framework of reflective components for managing architecture adaptation

Authors:
Rui Moreira;Gordon Blair;Eurico Carrapatoso
Affiliations:
Computing Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK and Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal and Institute de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores do Porto, Porto, Portugal;Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal;Institute de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores do Porto, Porto, Portugal and Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
Venue:
SEM'02 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Software engineering and middleware
Year:
2002

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Abstract

Software engineers use abstraction to better understand, model and reason about the surrounding world. Recently Architecture Description Languages (ADLs) introduced new levels of abstraction with potential use at run-time to support system evolution. In this paper we propose the FORMAware architecture that blends run-time architectural representation with a reflective programming model to address adaptation issues and promote the proximity between design and development. Reflection opens up composition architecture through a replaceable default style manager that permits to execute architecture reconfigurations. This manager enforces the structural integrity of the architecture through a set of style rules that developers may change to meet other architectural strategies. Each reconfiguration runs in the scope of a transaction that we may commit or rollback.