Runtime Evolution as an Aspect

We propose viewing the ability to update a system at runtime as an aspect, since it is a crosscutting concern. To show that the runtime evolution aspect can be developed separately from application development we have developed an implementation of such aspect using the language AspectJ. We describe our implementation of the aspect and limitations of the implementation.

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