ReflectTools: A tool to support the development of reconfigurable software

This paper presents a tool, named ReflectTools, to Reconfigurable Software Development. To understand the peculiarities of this kind of software, a Methodology and a Reconfigurable Execution Environment are presented in this paper. Thus, it is possible to demonstrate how this kind of software is developed, as well as the environment features, whose activities (subsystems object supervisor and retrieval information) are automated by the proposed tool. In order to present ReflectTools, an application using remote method invocation was developed as a case study. Thereby, it is possible to evaluate the behavior of these subsystems in the software reconfiguration step.