LEAD++: An Object-Oriented Reflective Language for Dynamically Adaptable Software (1999)
| Venue: | IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamental of Electronics, Communications and Computer Science |
| Citations: | 3 - 1 self |
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@ARTICLE{Amano99lead++:an,
author = {Noriki Amano and Takuo Watanabe},
title = {LEAD++: An Object-Oriented Reflective Language for Dynamically Adaptable Software},
journal = {IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamental of Electronics, Communications and Computer Science},
year = {1999},
volume = {82},
pages = {1009--1016}
}
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Abstract
A system has dynamic adaptability if it can adapt itself to dynamically changing runtime environments. As open-ended distributed systems and mobile computing systems have spread widely, the need for software with dynamic adaptability increases. We propose a model of software with dynamic adaptability and the object-oriented reflective language LEAD++ based on the model. The basic idea is that we introduce the mechanism which changes procedure invocations dynamically depending on the states of runtime environments. The mechanism forms a meta-level architecture, and realizes dynamic adaptability in reflective way. LEAD++ provides the mechanism as a language functionality. We are currently implementing a prototype of LEAD++ as a preprocessor of Java. Using LEAD++, we can systematically describe dynamically adaptable applets, mobile objects, etc.
