A Component Model Engineered with Components and Aspects

Lionel Seinturier (1, 2) , Nicolas Pessemier (2, 1) , Laurence Duchien (2, 1) , Thierry Coupaye (3)

1 JACQUARD - Weaving of Software Components
2 LIFL - Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille
3 FT R&D - France Télécom Recherche & Développement

This paper presents AOKell, a framework for engineering component-based systems. This framework implements the Fractal model, a hierarchical and dynamic component model. The novelty of this paper lies in the presentation of AOKell, an implementation of the Fractal model with aspects. Two dimensions can be isolated with Fractal: the functional dimension, which is concerned with the definition of application components, and the control dimension, which is concerned with the technical services (e.g. lifecycle, binding, persistence, etc.) that manage components. The originality of AOKell is, first, to provide an aspect-oriented approach to integrate these two dimensions, and second, to apply a component-based approach for engineering the control dimension. Hence, AOKell is a reflective component framework where application components are managed by other, so-called, control components and where aspects glue together application components and control components.

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

Lionel Seinturier, Nicolas Pessemier, Laurence Duchien, Thierry Coupaye. A Component Model Engineered with Components and Aspects. 9th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE'06), 2006, Vasteras, Sweden. pp.139-153. ⟨inria-00126350⟩