Aop and Dynamic Component Adaptation

The use of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf components in the development of software systems is supposed to result in a reduction of development costs and time by promoting reusability. On the contrary, due to the Black-Box nature they exhibit, the use of COTS products may result in a burden for developers as continuous re-adaptation may be required along the software life-cycle or even at runtime if the nature of the system demands it. In this work we consider AOP techniques and mechanisms in order to alleviate this situation, proposing an AOP-based adaptation framework design.