Reflection as the Basis for Developing a Dynamic SoC Persistence System.

Abstract

Persistence is a common application requirement that is usually taken into account when the program is being developed. Different emerging techniques following the Separation of Concerns principle are focused on detaching crosscutting concerns, like persistence, from the main application code. Although this is a profitable principle, existing tools lack two main features: runtime adaptability and language independence. This paper shows how computational reflection can be employed as a suitable technique to overcome the two previous limitations, offering dynamic adaptation of persistence features in a language independent way and achieving transparent separation of the application’s persistence concern.