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Malleability, obliviousness and aspects for broadcast service attachment

An important characteristic of Service-Oriented Architectures is that clients do not depend on the service implementation's internal assignment of methods to objects. It is perhaps the most important technical characteristic that differentiates them from more common object-oriented solutions. This characteristic makes clients and services malleable, allowing them to be rearranged at run-time as circumstances change. That improvement in malleability is impaired by requiring clients to direct service requests to particular services. Ideally, the clients are totally oblivious to the service structure, as they are to aspect structure in aspect-oriented software. Removing knowledge of a method implementation's location, whether in object or service, requires re-defining the boundary line between programming language and middleware, making clearer specification of dependence on protocols, and bringing the transaction-like concept of failure scopes into language semantics as well. This paper explores consequences and advantages of a transition from object-request brokering to service-request brokering, including the potential to improve our ability to write more parallel software.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:4138
Date January 2010
CreatorsHarrison, William
PublisherUniversität Potsdam, An-Institute. Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Softwaresystemtechnik GMBH
Source SetsPotsdam University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeInProceedings
Formatapplication/pdf
SourceProceedings of the 9th Workshop on Aspects, Components, and Patterns for Infrastructure Software (ACP4IS '10) / Bram Adams, Michael Haupt, Daniel Lohmann (Hrsg.). - Potsdam : Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2010. - ISBN 978-3-86956-043-4. - S. 41 - 47
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