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A Semantic Composition Model to Preserve (Re)Configuration Consistency in Aspect Oriented Middleware

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Publication date12/2009
Host publicationARM '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective MIddleware
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherACM
Number of pages0
ISBN (print)978-1-60558-850-6
<mark>Original language</mark>English
Event8th International Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM 2009) - Illinois, USA
Duration: 1/01/1900 → …

Conference

Conference8th International Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM 2009)
CityIllinois, USA
Period1/01/00 → …

Conference

Conference8th International Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM 2009)
CityIllinois, USA
Period1/01/00 → …

Abstract

Aspect-Oriented Programming enables the isolation and modularisation of crosscutting concerns that are typically implemented in a tangled fashion within the base system. However, the composition of these aspects is not completely orthogonal; with interactions between aspects involving direct and indirect dependencies, and conflicts that can cause runtime inconsistencies when those interactions are not detected. This is particularly true of the dynamic composition and adaptation of aspects within distributed systems; therefore in this paper we propose a semantic composition model to detect and solve these interaction issues at runtime. Our approach can be employed in dynamic AOP middleware, and we evaluate it here within the AO-OpenCom tool. We measure the overhead incurred by the semantic composition model when performing safe dynamic reconfigurations.