An enhanced reflective architecture for adaptation of the object-oriented language/software

Abstract

To be effective in addressing specific requirements found in the intended computing domains of a given object-oriented language, several researchers have tended to introduce new notation into current existing interface constructs. Current research that provides such interfaces can be classified into two categories: one embedding special purpose interface construct in language syntax and can not be adapted further by end-users; the other provides an open way that programmers can tailor new interface construct to their need. In either way, programmers suffer the inheritance anomaly and the inheritance exclusion. To handle such disadvantages, this paper presents our language adapter++, in which programmers can adapt the object model to different computing environments, and then reify the internal object state into a separated virtual interface, called virtual adapter. The virtual adapter along with traditional interface can be used to define an object as if using the integrated construct.