Fresco: Flexible and Reliable Evolution System for Components

Vandewoude, Yves; Berbers, Yolande

doi:10.1016/j.entcs.2004.08.044

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“…Dynamic updating of software components is addressed both by Bialek and Jul and by Vandewoude and Berbers [1,7], but there is no direct language support for specifying the conversion rules for interface adapters, and object structures cannot be automatically translated in the serialization layer which imposes an extra overhead at runtime. Vandewoude and Berbers describe the design of a tool for automatically deriving conversion rules [8]; VIDL could be used to specify conversion rules not automatically derived. Plasil et al present an architecture for dynamic component updating [5], but the main focus is on managing components, and component updating is only allowed when the replacement interface is a subtype of the installed interface.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting transparent evolution of component interfaces

Lins

Schultz

2006

Proceedings of the 2006 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

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Component-oriented programming facilitates the development of reusable application parts encapsulated by welldefined interfaces. There is however a tension between compatibility and evolution, since the interface of a component may constrain refactoring or require manual development of multiple, ad-hoc adaptation layers when an interface is evolved. We here present the declarative language VIDL for specifying component interface evolution. VIDL allows evolution of components with automatic generation of efficient adapter code that statically guarantees interface compatibility with other components that rely on anterior versions of the interface.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%