Section: Software

AWED

Participants : Mario Südholt [correspondent] , Ismael Mejia.

The model of Aspects With Explicit Distribution (AWED) supports the modularization of crosscutting functionalities of distributed applications. It addresses the problem that common aspect systems do not provide features for distributed programming. It notably features three main aspect abstractions: remote pointcuts, remotely-executed advice, and distributed aspects.

This year a gray-box model for distributed composition has been built and implemented based on the AWED model using the notion of invasive distributed patterns (see Sec.  6.1 ). Furthermore, the resulting model has been applied to the evolution of grid applications and OpenMRS, an open-source health information system. The AWED system has also been employed in the CESSA project proposal (see Sec.  8.1 ) as a basis for our work on the secure evolution of service-oriented architectures. Finally, the development of a new, more modular, implementation of the AWED system has started in 2011.

AWED is available at http://awed.gforge.inria.fr .