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Dynamic Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) technologies typically provide coarse-grained mechanisms for adapting aspects that cross-cut a system deployment; i.e. whole aspect modules can be added and removed at runtime. However, in this paper we demonstrate that adaptation of the finer-grained elements of individual aspect modules is required in highly dynamic systems and applications. We present AspectOpenCOM, a principled, reflection-based component framework that provides a meta object protocol capable of fine-grained adaptation of deployed aspects. We then evaluate this solution by eliciting a set of requirements for dynamic fine-grained adaptation from a series of case studies, and illustrate how the framework successfully meets these criteria. We also investigate the performance gains of fine-grained adaptation versus a coarse-grained approach.
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Grace, P., Lagaisse, B., Truyen, E., Joosen, W. (2008). A Reflective Framework for Fine-Grained Adaptation of Aspect-Oriented Compositions. In: Pautasso, C., Tanter, É. (eds) Software Composition. SC 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4954. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78789-1_17
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