Multi-stage Aspect-Oriented Composition of Component-Based Applications

Abstract. The creation of distributed applications requires sophisticated compositions, as various components — supporting application logic or non-functional requirements — must be assembled and configured in an operational application. Aspect-oriented middleware has contributed to improving the modularization of such complex applications, by supporting a component model that offers aspectoriented composition alongside the traditional composition of provided and required interfaces. One of the recent advances in AO middleware is the ability to express dynamic compositions that depend on the evaluation of available context information — some of this information may only be available at deployment time. The search for high level composition mechanisms is an ongoing track in the research community, yet the composition logic of a real world application remains complex and it would greatly pay off if composition logic — traditionally encoded in monolithic deployment descriptors �...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: OTM
• Authors: Bert Lagaisse, Eddy Truyen, Wouter Joosen
• Keywords: AO Middleware, Composition Logic, Distributed Application, Internet Technology, OTM 2007