Process view of reflection mechanism for reuse software architecture
Zaoqing Liang, Ying Shi, Dan Xie, Xiangyang Jia · Wuhan University Journal of Natural Sciences · 2007
Reflection mechanism for reuse software architecture (RMRSA) divides a software architecture into base-level architecture and meta-level architecture logically. Base-level architecture is the ordinary architecture; meta-level represents and manipulates the reusable meta-information of base-level architecture explicitly. Through reflection, the modification of meta-level architecture will result in the modification of the architecture in base-level. Then we can gain a new base-level architecture design. In this paper, we use π -calculus to define the constituents and their interaction processes of RMRSA, by these definition, we specify the business function in base-level at runtime, and illustrate the reflection mechanism between the base-level architecture and meta-level architecture.