Dynamic reconfiguration of software architectures through aspects

Authors:
Cristóbal Costa;Nour Ali;Jennifer Pérez;José Ángel Carsí;Isidro Ramos
Affiliations:
Department of Information Systems and Computation, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain;Department of Information Systems and Computation, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain;Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain;Department of Information Systems and Computation, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain;Department of Information Systems and Computation, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Venue:
ECSA'07 Proceedings of the First European conference on Software Architecture
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Currently, most software systems have a dynamic nature and evolve at run-time. The dynamic reconfiguration of software architectures has to be supported in order to enable their architectural element instances and their links to be created and destroyed at run-time. Complex components also need reconfiguration capabilities to evolve their internal compositions. This paper introduces an approach to support the dynamic reconfiguration of software architectures taking advantage of aspect-oriented techniques. It enables complex components to autonomously reconfigure themselves: they are capable of both having knowledge of their current configuration and reconfiguring themselves at run-time. This approach has been developed for the PRISMA aspect-oriented architectural model. A new kind of aspect has been created in PRISMA in order to provide dynamic reconfiguration services to each complex component; it is called the Configuration Aspect.