In this paper, we propose the application of concepts from aspect-oriented software development to facilitate modular treatment
of dynamic reconfiguration descriptions in specification-to-deployment environments. Our strategy differs from earlier work
in the area by blending aspects and architecture abstractions simply and seamlessly through a special kind of connector —called
an aspectual connector — that encapsulates reconfiguration interactions. More specifically, we propose an aspect-oriented specification-to-deployment
environment, called AO-Plastik, that uses our AspectualAcme ADL to specify dynamic reconfiguration by means of aspectual connectors,
and maps these specifications onto a reflective component runtime platform.
Keywords Dynamic reconfiguration - Aspect-oriented software development - Architecture description language - Component-based software