Carbon emissions present a pressing challenge to the traditional construction industry,
urging a fundamental shift towards more sustainable practices and materials. Recent …

This paper presents Fractal, a hierarchical and reflective component model with sharing.
Components in this model can be endowed with arbitrary reflective capabilities, from plain …

In the last decade, a large number of different software component models have been
developed, with different aims and using different principles and technologies. This has …

Develo** distributed applications is a difficult task due to three major problems: the
complexity of programming interprocess communication, the need to support services …

This paper presents Fractal, a hierarchical and reflective component model with sharing.
Components in this model can be endowed with arbitrary reflective capabilities, from black …

Component-based software structuring principles are now commonplace at the application
level; but componentization is far less established when it comes to building low-level …

Middleware has emerged as an important architectural component in modern distributed
systems largely because it offers a high-level, platform-independent programming model …

Recent developments in service architectures suggest that run-time adaptations could be
implemented with dynamic AOP. In this paper we discuss application requirements on run …

JBoss is an extensible, reflective, and dynamically reconfigurable Java application server. It
includes a set of components that implement the J2EE specification, but its scope goes well …

Mobile client applications must discover and interoperate with application services available
to them at their present location. However, these services will be developed upon a range of …