Semantic Models for Distributed Object Reflection

  • Authors:
  • José Meseguer;Carolyn L. Talcott

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ECOOP '02 Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

A generic formal model of distributed object reflection is proposed, that combines logical reflection with a structuring of distributed objects as nested configurations of metaobject that can control subobjects under them. The model provides mathematical models for a good number of existing models of distributed reflection and of reflective middleware. To illustrate the ideas, we show in some detail how two important models of distributed actor reflection can be naturally obtained as special cases of our generic model, and discuss how several recent models of reflective middleware can be likewise formalized as instances of our model.