Dynamic Adaptability in Operating Systems by Means of an Object-Oriented Architecture

Dynamic adaptability of operating systems becomes more and more important, to be able to deal with new requirements, without the necessity of recompiling and rebooting the whole system. In the field of software development the object-oriented paradigm has been widly accepted as powerful method to achieve adaptability. This paper presents a novel approach to achieve fine-grained, dynamic adaptability by means of an object-oriented system architecture, used within the CHEOPS 1 kernel. 1 Introduction The requirements to be met by computer systems and their operating systems rapidly increase both in number and variety. Dedicated Machines, quite different equipped and used for highly specialized purposes requires different support by the operating system, to carry out their tasks effectively. Furthermore, backward compatibility to older versions, security support, interoperability or availability might been required as additional system properties. Traditional allpurpose systems can't be..