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Integrating aspect-orientation and structural annotations to support adaptive middleware

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Holger Mügge,

Tobias Rho,

Armin B. CremersAuthors Info & Claims

MAI '07: Proceedings of the 1st workshop on Middleware-application interaction: in conjunction with Euro-Sys 2007

Pages 9 - 14

https://doi.org/10.1145/1238828.1238831

Published: 20 March 2007 Publication History

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To anticipate or not to anticipate --- that is the question, regarding adaptive middleware in the area of ubiquitous computing. Anticipation can guarantee that both the adapted and the adapting component work together safely, but it limits the scenario space to some predictable well-known cases. This holds even more when statically typed languages are used, as we assume here. A second problem is a semantic gap between the business logic that triggers the adaptation and the technological demands of the adaptation that must be solved on the implementation level. We discuss current approaches and describe a new approach combining aspect-oriented programming with structural metadata to cope with both problems. An example illustrates how our approach will work in practice.

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Integrating aspect-orientation and structural annotations to support adaptive middleware
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Architectures
    1. Other architectures
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Extra-functional properties
      1. Interoperability

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MAI '07: Proceedings of the 1st workshop on Middleware-application interaction: in conjunction with Euro-Sys 2007

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ISBN:9781595936967

DOI:10.1145/1238828

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University of Lisboa, Portugal
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FAU-Erlangen, Germany

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