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Using AOP to develop architectural-neutral operating system components

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Olaf Spinczyk,

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EW 11: Proceedings of the 11th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1133572.1133582

Published: 19 September 2004 Publication History

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The architecture of an operating system, e.g. micro kernel or monolithic kernel, is usually seen as something static. Even during the long lasting evolution of operating system code it is extremely hard and, thus, expensive to change the architecture. However, our experience is that architectural evolution is often required and an architecture-neutral way to develop operating system components should be found. After analyzing why architectural flexibility is so difficult to achieve, we propose Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) as a solution. An example from the PURE OS family, which is implemented in an aspect-oriented programming language called AspectC++, will demonstrate the usefulness of the approach, which allows to separate the code that implements architectural properties from the core functionality.

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EW 11: Proceedings of the 11th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop

September 2004

214 pages

ISBN:9781450378079

DOI:10.1145/1133572

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https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIT.2018.8352383
Harada YAbe KYoo MYokoyama T(2015)Aspect-Oriented Customization of the Scheduling Algorithms and the Resource Access Protocols of a Real-Time Operating System Family2015 IEEE International Conference on Smart City/SocialCom/SustainCom (SmartCity)10.1109/SmartCity.2015.52(87-94)Online publication date: Dec-2015
https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartCity.2015.52
Saito NYoo MYokoyama T(2014)A distributed real-time operating system built with aspect-oriented programming for distributed embedded control systems2014 20th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS)10.1109/PADSW.2014.7097839(436-443)Online publication date: Dec-2014
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Lohmann DStreicher JHofer WSpinczyk OSchröder-Preikschat WEide EFiuczynski M(2007)Configurable memory protection by aspectsProceedings of the 4th workshop on Programming languages and operating systems10.1145/1376789.1376794(1-5)Online publication date: 18-Oct-2007
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