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Architectural Reflection Realising Software Architectures via Reflective Activities

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Engineering Distributed Objects

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Architectural reflection is the computation performed by a software system about its own software architecture. Building on prev- ious research and on practical experience in industrial projects, in this pa- per we expand the approach and show a practical (albeit very simple) example ofa pplication of architectural reflection. The example shows how one can express, thanks to reflection, both functional and non-functional requirements in terms of object-oriented concepts, and how a clean sep- aration of concerns between application domain level and architectural level activities can be enforced.

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  1. D.I.S.Co, Universitá di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

    Francesco Tisato, Andrea Savigni, Walter Cazzola & Andrea Sosio

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    Wolfgang Emmerich

  2. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, 30 Saw Mill River Road Hawthorne, NY, 10532, USA

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Tisato, F., Savigni, A., Cazzola, W., Sosio, A. (2001). Architectural Reflection Realising Software Architectures via Reflective Activities. In: Emmerich, W., Tai, S. (eds) Engineering Distributed Objects. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1999. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45254-0_10

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