Mediating connectors
Rosana Balzer, Neil M. Goldman · 2003
We have developed a technology for mediating all shared library calls. These mediators can be dynamically installed and removed during execution. They can be used as an instrument for these interfaces, to monitor their behavior, to integrate legacy components together, or to encapsulate potentially harmful or unreliable components. Since modern commercial operating systems promote packaging third party functionality as shared libraries and are themselves composed of shared libraries the ability to mediate these interfaces provides access to the broad range of services available on that platform. An implementation of this technology is available for Windows NT.