This paper briefly describes the design of a dynamic adaptation management framework exploiting the concepts provided by Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) -in particular Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP)-, as well as reflection and adaptation techniques in order to support and speed up the process of dynamic component evolution by tackling issues related to signature and protocol inte...

For concrete usage scenarios there are different options of how to use AspectJ's language features, and these options deeply impact the chances for further evolution of both base classes and aspects. Aspects can use aspect-oriented as well as object-oriented features. The combination of these mechanisms provides new powerful mechanisms. Idioms can help in guiding AspectJ users through this fron...

In this paper we show how design-level aspects can be used to encapsulate security concerns that can be woven into models of software designs. The aspect-oriented design technique described in this paper allows one to analyze the impact of security concerns on other functional concerns. We illustrate our technique using a small example.

We propose a methodology, based on Aspect-Oriented Modeling (AOM), for incorporating security mechanisms in an application. The functionality of the application is described using the primary model and the attacks are specified using aspects. The attack aspect is composed with the primary model to obtain the misuse model. The misuse model describes how much the application can be compromised. I...

With the emerging concept of model transformation, information can be extracted from one or more source models to produce the target models. The conversion of these models can be done automatically with specific transformation languages. This conversion requires mapping between both models with the help of dynamic hash tables. Hash tables store reference links between the elements of the source...

Solutions have been proposed to support awareness in groupware. Frequently, this requirement is fulfilled by similar functionalities that are implemented in different modules within these collaborative applications. These solutions usually represent crosscut concerns related to awareness by the use of object-oriented programming. As a result, tightly coupled components are generated as well as ...

SOA architecture is more and more used in the companies, The importance of the service orientation and its advantages with the information system of the company, confront us to a new challenge. It is primarily to ensure the decisional aspect of the information system of company by adopting Services Orientated Architecture like support architecture. This engineering must ensure on the one hand t...