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Cost-effective reconfiguration in ODBMSs is difficult to achieve due to the trade-off between modularity and efficiency. Existing ODBMS designs offer limited reconfigurability because reconfigurable features are closely woven with the components to improve efficiency. This paper proposes the use of aspects — entities used by Aspect-Oriented Programming to localise cross-cutting concerns — to separate reconfigurable features from the components regardless of their granularity. This provides a cost-effective solution for both static and dynamic reconfiguration. The effectiveness of the approach is demonstrated by discussing dynamically reconfigurable instance adaptation in the SADES evolution system.
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Rashid, A., Chitchyan, R. (2001). Reconfigurability in Object Database Management Systems: An Aspect-Oriented Approach. In: Patel, D., Choudhury, I., Patel, S., de Cesare, S. (eds) OOIS 2000. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0299-1_26
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