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FORMAware: Framework of Reflective Components for Managing Architecture Adaptation

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Software Engineering and Middleware (SEM 2002)

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Software engineers use abstraction to better understand, model and reason about the surrounding world. Recently Architecture Description Languages (ADLs) introduced new levels of abstraction with potential use at run-time to support system evolution. In this paper we propose the FORMAware architecture that blends run-time architectural representation with a reflective programming model to address adaptation issues and promote the proximity between design and development. Reflection opens up composition architecture through a replaceable default style manager that permits to execute architecture reconfigurations. This manager enforces the structural integrity of the architecture through a set of style rules that developers may change to meet other architectural strategies. Each reconfiguration runs in the scope of a transaction that we may commit or rollback.

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  1. Computing Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK

    Rui Moreira

  2. Universidade Fernando Pessoa, 4249-004, Porto, Portugal

    Rui Moreira & Gordon Blair

  3. Institute de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores do Porto, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

    Rui Moreira & Eurico Carrapatoso

  4. Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, 4050 - 497, Porto, Portugal

    Eurico Carrapatoso

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  1. Dipartimento di Informazione e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, via Ravasi, 2, 21100, Varese, Italy

    Alberto Coen-Porisini

  2. School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, 444 Computer Science Building, Irvine, CA, 92697-3425, USA

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Moreira, R., Blair, G., Carrapatoso, E. (2003). FORMAware: Framework of Reflective Components for Managing Architecture Adaptation. In: Coen-Porisini, A., van der Hoek, A. (eds) Software Engineering and Middleware. SEM 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2596. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-38093-0_8

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