Design and development of a context oriented language for middleware based applications

摘要

Practical middleware platforms nowadays are highly complex. This complexity surfaces internally in middleware construction, and externally in the programming models supported and features/services offered. There is a need to reduce this complexity both internally and externally: internally through enhanced modularity, and externally through the use of contemporary composition paradigms. Furthermore, middleware platforms need to be configurable, reconfigurable, customisable and extensible to reflect the specific needs of applications, the heterogeneity of involved systems and the multiple distributed deployment contexts. >Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) has been put forward as a promising and successful paradigm to improve the reusability, extensibility, modularity and customization capabilities of middleware platforms. Moreover, most non-trivial applications of AO have emerged from the middleware domain, also a number of AO-frameworks (e.g. JBoss and Spring) specificallytarget the AO-middleware application domain. >The goal of this workshop is to bring together and extend the AOSD and middleware research communities. This hybrid AO-middleware community is a cross-fertilization of 1) the AOSD community which has a plethora of promising technologies for further research on middleware development and middleware application composition and 2) the middleware community which has challenging applications for the validation and enhancement of AO-technologies