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Blake W Stone

Clemens Alden Szyperski

Krzysztof J Cwalina

Mircea Trofin

Anson Tsao

Oleg G Lvovitch

Alex Bulankou

A framework for open, dynamic, and reflective applications contains high level metadata that define blocks of composable elements using a service definition, which defines specific keys for using the block of code. The service definition may be exported from the code using reflection without having to load the code into memory, and decisions on which block of code and how to load the code may be made at runtime. The composable elements may be grouped into composable parts. Composable part definitions may be used to instantiate or produce composable parts. At runtime, dynamic applications may search from many composable elements, and instantiate and execute the composable element as part of the application.

Framework for open dynamic reflective applications

Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that dynamically implement method selections based on declarative requirements and interaction scope. Requirements that describe when each of multiple methods that can perform a particular operation should be called can be declared using a declarative syntax. Based upon a program event, the system determines that a request should be made to select a most appropriate method of the available methods to call to perform the particular operation. Upon receiving the request to select the most appropriate method, a sort process is executed that uses an interaction scope of a current user context in combination with a plurality of sort rules to generate a sorted list of the available methods into a particular order based upon appropriateness. A most appropriate method, if any, is returned to the calling application, and then called to perform the particular operation.

Dynamic method selection based on declarative requirements of interaction scope

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