Adaptation of monolithic software components by their transformation into composite configurations based on refactoring

Abstract

We present in this paper an approach aiming at adapting component structures instead of adapting component services. It focuses on transforming a software component from a monolithic configuration to a composite one. Among the motivations of this kind of adaptation, we note its possible application to permit flexible deployment of software components and flexible loading of component service-code according to the available resources (CPU, memory). This adaptation is based on the analysis and the instrumentation of component codes. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.