Refraction: Low-Cost Management of Reflective Meta-Data in Pervasive Component-Based Applications

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2015

Authors

Daniels, W (Author) Other; Proenca, J (Author) Other; Clarke, D (Author) Other; Joosen, W (Author) Other; Hughes, D (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering - CBSE '15

Pages: 27-36

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Authenticus ID: P-00G-6NF

DOI: 10.1145/2737166.2737168

Abstract (EN): This paper proposes the concept of refraction, a principled means to lower the cost of managing reflective meta-data for pervasive systems. While prior work has demonstrated the bene fits of reflective component-based middleware for building open and reconfigurable applications, the cost of using remote reflective operations remains high. Refractive components address this problem by selectively augmenting application data flows with their reflective meta-data, which travels at low cost to reflective pools, which serve as loci of inspection and control for the distributed application. Additionally reflective policies are introduced, providing a mechanism to trigger reconfigurations based on incoming reflective meta-data. We evaluate the performance of refraction in a case-study of automatic con figuration repair for a real-world pervasive application. We show that refraction reduces network overhead in comparison to the direct use of reflective operations while not increasing development overhead. To enable further experimentation with the concept of refraction, we provide RxCom, an open-source refractive component model and supporting runtime environment.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 10