Dynamic Software Assembly for Automatic Deployment-oriented Adaptation

The notion of software adaptation considered in this paper relates to the capability of making software systems adjustable to varying deployment requirements. In this context we seek for the necessary runtime infrastructure to allow software systems adapt on the fly to the particular execution requirements. The primary assumption is that the constituent components of a software system may have to be provided with alternative incarnations, each potentially addressing varying deployment needs. In this context, adaptation is treated as a runtime function of the system itself, realising a component and assembly process, since the deployment-specific parameters are only known upon execution start-up.