Architecture and design of adaptive object-models

Authors:
Joseph W. Yoder;Federico Balaguer;Ralph Johnson
Affiliations:
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL;Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL;Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
Venue:
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Year:
2001

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Abstract

Many object-oriented information systems share an architectural style that emphasizes flexibility and run-time adaptability. Business rules are stored externally to the program such as in a database or XML files instead of in code. The object model that the user cares about is part of the database, and the object model of the code is just an interpreter of the users' object model. We call these systems "Adaptive Object-Models", because the users' object model is interpreted at runtime and can be changed with immediate (but controlled) effects on the system interpreting it. The real power in Adaptive Object-Models is that they have a definition of a domain model and rules for its integrity and can be configured by domain experts external to the execution of the program. This paper describes the Adaptive Object-Model architecture along with its strengths and weaknesses. It illustrates the Adaptive Object-Model architectural style by describing a framework for Medical Observations (following Fowler's Analysis Patterns) that we built.