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USENIX Technical Program - Abstract - COOTS 99
The Design and Implementation of Guaraná
Alexandre Oliva and Luiz Eduardo Buzato, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Abstract
Several reflective architectures have attempted to improve
meta-object reuse by supporting composition of meta-objects, but
have done so using limited mechanisms such as Chains of
Responsibility. We advocate the adoption of the Composite pattern
to define meta-configurations. In the meta-object protocol
(MOP) of Guaraná, a composer meta-object can control
reconfiguration of its component meta-objects and their
interactions with base-level objects, resolving conflicts that may
arise and establishing meta-level security policies.
Guaraná is currently implemented as an extension of Kaffe
OpenVM
TM, a free implementation of the Java1 Virtual Machine.
Nevertheless, most design decisions presented in this paper can be
transported to other programming languages and MOPs, improving their
flexibility, reconfigurability, security and meta-level code reuse.
We present performance figures that show that it is possible to
introduce run-time reflection support in a language like Java
without much impact on execution speed.
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