The Evolving Philosophers Problem: Dynamic Change Management
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Paradigms for process interaction in distributed programs
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
JAC: A Flexible Solution for Aspect-Oriented Programming in Java
REFLECTION '01 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Metalevel Architectures and Separation of Crosscutting Concerns
Transparent Dynamic Reconfiguration for CORBA
DOA '01 Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications
NeCoMan: Middleware for Safe Distributed-Service Adaptation in Programmable Networks
IEEE Distributed Systems Online
Explicitly distributed AOP using AWED
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
True and transparent distributed composition of aspect-components
Middleware'06 Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IFIP/USENIX international conference on Middleware
A versatile kernel for distributed AOP
DAIS'06 Proceedings of the 6th IFIP WG 6.1 international conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems
Run-Time and atomic weaving of distributed aspects
Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II
Support for distributed adaptations in aspect-oriented middleware
Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
Evaluating the impacts of dynamic reconfiguration on the QoS of running systems
Journal of Systems and Software
Modeling adaptation with Klaim
ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review
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The majority of aspect-oriented middlewares supporting dynamic aspect weaving fail to preserve important safety properties while weaving or unweaving a distributed aspect at runtime. This position paper looks in particular at the safety properties of structural integrity and global state consistency. Preserving these two safety properties in the presence of dynamic change has already been extensively addressed in the space of dynamic reconfiguration of component-based distributed systems. As will be argued in this position paper, existing coordination protocols developed in this space can be largely reused for distributed aspect weaving provided that some small adaptations are made to account for the aspect-oriented composition mechanisms. To demonstrate results and as a proof-of-concept, we describe how we have ported the NeCoMan dynamic reconfiguration support on top of the JBoss AOP framework. As a result, system-wide consistency can be preserved in JBoss when weaving or unweaving a distributed aspect at runtime.