Architectural Reflection: Realising Software Architectures via Reflective Activities

Architectural reflection is the computation performed by a software system about its own software architecture. Building on previous research and on practical experience in industrial projects, in this paper we expand the approach and show a practical (albeit very simple) example of application 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 separation of concerns between application domain level and architectural level activities can be enforced.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: EDO
• Authors: Francesco Tisato, Andrea Savigni, Walter Cazzola, Andrea Sosio
• Keywords: Application Domain Level, Architectural Level Activities, Architectural Reflection, Distributed And Parallel Computing, EDO 2000