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Process view of reflection mechanism for reuse software architecture

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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.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, Hubei, China

    Liang Zaoqing, Ying Shi, **e Dan & Jia **angyang

  2. School of Computer, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, Hubei, China

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Foundation item: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60473066) and Young Outstanding Talent Foundation of Hubei Province, China (2003ABB004)

Biography: LIANG Zaoqing (1971–), male, Ph. D. candidate, research direction: software engineering, component-base software engineering, formal method.

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Liang, Z., Ying, S., **e, D. et al. Process view of reflection mechanism for reuse software architecture. Wuhan Univ. J. of Nat. Sci. 12, 431–436 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11859-006-0100-7

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