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Adaptation of Connectors in Software Architectures

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Object-Oriented Technology: ECOOP’98 Workshop Reader (ECOOP 1998)

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We want to be able to adapt the behaviour of existing software components in order to add fault-tolerance or enforcement of security properties. We believe that metaobject protocols [1] can be used to perform this transparent and reusable adaptation without recourse to source code. Unfortunately, there is currently no general formal model developed for metaobject protocols, which makes it difficult to reason about their use. However, we believe that recent work in software architectures - in particular the WRIGHT [2] architectural specification language allows us to model metaobject protocols as parameterised connectors.

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  1. University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK

    Ian Welch & Robert Stroud

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  1. University of Berne, Neubruckstr. 10, CH-3012, Berne, Switzerland

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  2. Softcenter, University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, S-372 25, Ronneby, Sweden

    Jan Bosch

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Welch, I., Stroud, R. (1998). Adaptation of Connectors in Software Architectures. In: Demeyer, S., Bosch, J. (eds) Object-Oriented Technology: ECOOP’98 Workshop Reader. ECOOP 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1543. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49255-0_28

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