Component-Based open middleware supporting aspect-oriented software composition

  • Authors:

  • Bert Lagaisse;Wouter Joosen

  • Affiliations:

  • Dept. of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven, Belgium;Dept. of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • CBSE'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Component-Based Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

State-of-the-art middleware for component-based distributed applications requires openness to support a broad and varying range of services. It also requires powerful and maintainable composition between application logic and middleware services. In this paper we describe DyMAC (Dynamic Middleware with Aspect-Components), a component and aspect-based middleware framework that supports component-based development of middleware services and offers the power of aspect-oriented composition to connect the application logic to the middleware services. We discuss the issue of a lack of expressive power in the contracts of components and aspects when combining component-based and state-of-the-art aspect-oriented development. We describe how the DyMAC framework offers a component model that solves this problem with aspect integration contracts.