.Net Approach to Run-Time Component Integration

ANDRÉS FLORES; I. GARCÍA; MACARIO POLO

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Conferencia; LA-WEB'05, 3rd IEEE Latin American Web Congress; 2005

IEEE Computer Society Press

This work is related to the area of Component-based Software Development. We intend to automate a Component Integration Process as a support for run-time adjustments of applications, when the environment involves highly dynamic changes of requirements. This implies to evaluate components against a given set of requirements. We propose a framework for such process and consider related concepts like Assessment and Adaptation. Assessment is based on meta-data added to components, involving assertions, and usage protocols. Meta-data is evaluated with a technique based on Abstract Syntax Trees. We also report on a prototype developed on the .Net technology to implement the proposed Assessment and Adaptation procedures which allowed us to gain understanding about the complexity and effectiveness of our model.