Chapter 5. The ACE Service Configurator Framework

CHAPTER SYNOPSIS

This chapter describes the design and use of the ACE Service Configurator framework, which is an implementation of the Component Configurator pattern [POSA2]. This pattern helps increase application extensibility and flexibility by decoupling the behavior of services from the point of time when implementations of these services are configured into application processes. The chapter concludes by illustrating how the ACE Service Configurator framework can help to improve the extensibility of our networked logging server.

5.1 Overview

Section 2.2 described the naming and linking design dimensions that developers need to consider when configuring networked applications. An extensible ...

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