Publicación (Conferencias y Seminarios)

Handling the Dynamic Reconfiguration of Software Architectures Using Aspects

Pérez Benedí, Jenifer; Costa-Soria, Cristóbal; Carsí, José Angel

Resumen:

Currently, most software systems have a dynamic nature and need to evolve at run-time. For this reason, the dynamic reconfiguration of software architectures is a challenge that must be dealt with to enable the creation and destruction of component instances and their links at run-time. This challenge is even greater when there are autonomous composite components which also need reconfiguration capabilities to evolve their internal compositions. This paper presents a novel approach to dynamically reconfigure software architectures taking advantage of aspect-oriented techniques. The approach presented is a platform-independent alternative whose aim is to increase the reuse and to decrease the maintenance effort. It deals with the challenge of reconfiguring composite components that: (1) are easy to maintain, since the dynamic reconfiguration concern is separated from the other concerns; (2) can autonomously reconfigure themselves, since each composite component is provided with dynamic reconfiguration services to change its internal architecture.

Año:

2009

Tipo de publicación:

Conferencias y Seminarios

Mes:

March

ISBN:

978-0-7695-3589-0

ISSN:

1534-5351

DOI:

10.1109/CSMR.2009.33