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On the Integration of Configuration and Meta-level Programming Approaches

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Configuration Programming, based on Architecture Description Languages, and Meta-Level Programming are considered promising approaches in the software engineering field. This paper shows that there is an immediate correspondence between some key concepts of Configuration and Meta-Level Programming approaches and that some of the main issues to be solved for their deployment in real systems are quite similar. The main result is that the integration of both approaches in a single configuration programming framework can assist in employing meta-level programming in order to achieve separation of concerns and improve software reuse. In addition, the capability of supporting dynamic configuration and flexibility on component programming language choice are potentially improved. A prototype of a configuration programming centered environment and some application examples are presented in order to demonstrate the useful features of the combined approach.

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  1. Instituto de Computação, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, RJ, Brazil

    Orlando Loques, Julius Leite & Marcelo Lobosco

  2. Instituto de Matemática e Estatística/UERJ, RJ, Brazil

    Alexandre Sztajnberg

  3. Grupo de Teleinformática e Automaçcão/COPPE/UFRJ, RJ, Brazil

    Alexandre Sztajnberg

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy

    Walter Cazzola

  2. Universitàa di Genova - DISI, Via Dodecaneso 35, 16146, Genova, Italy

    Walter Cazzola

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK

    Robert J. Stroud

  4. Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8, 20126, Milano, Italy

    Francesco Tisato

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Loques, O., Sztajnberg, A., Leite, J., Lobosco, M. (2000). On the Integration of Configuration and Meta-level Programming Approaches. In: Cazzola, W., Stroud, R.J., Tisato, F. (eds) Reflection and Software Engineering. OORaSE 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1826. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45046-7_11

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