Reifying the Reflectogram

Papoulias, Nikolaos; Denker, Marcus; Ducasse, Stephane; Fabresse, Luc

Towards Explicit Control for Implicit Reflection

Document type :

Communication dans un congrès avec actes

DOI :

10.1145/2695664.2695883

Title :

Reifying the Reflectogram
Towards Explicit Control for Implicit Reflection

Author(s) :

Papoulias, Nikolaos [Auteur correspondant]
Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution [RMOD]
Denker, Marcus [Auteur]

Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution [RMOD]
Ducasse, Stephane [Auteur]

Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution [RMOD]
Fabresse, Luc [Auteur]
Centre for Digital Systems [CERI SN - IMT Nord Europe]

Conference title :

30th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing

City :

Salamanca

Country :

Espagne

Start date of the conference :

2015-04-13

English keyword(s) :

Reflection
Intercession
Reflectogram
Explicit Control

HAL domain(s) :

Informatique [cs]/Langage de programmation [cs.PL]
Informatique [cs]/Algorithme et structure de données [cs.DS]

English abstract : [en]

Reflective facilities in OO languages are used both for implementing language extensions (such as AOP frameworks) and for support-ing new programming tools and methodologies (such as object-centric debugging and message-based ...
Show more >Reflective facilities in OO languages are used both for implementing language extensions (such as AOP frameworks) and for support-ing new programming tools and methodologies (such as object-centric debugging and message-based profiling). Yet controlling the run-time behavior of these reflective facilities introduces several challenges, such as computational overhead, the possibility of meta-recursion and an unclean separation of concerns between base and meta-level. In this paper we present five dimensions of meta-level control from related literature that try to remedy these problems. These dimensions are namely: temporal and spatial control, place-ment control, level control and identity control. We argue that the reification of the descriptive notion of the reflectogram, can unify the control of meta-level execution in all these five dimensions. We present a model for the reification of the reflectogram and validate our approach through a prototype implementation in the Pharo pro-gramming environment. Finally we detail a case-study on run-time tracing illustrating our approach.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

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