Modeling Aspect Mechanisms: A Top-Down Approach
Sergei Kojarski,
Northeastern University
David H. Lorenz,
University of Virginia
A plethora of aspect mechanisms exist today. All of these diverse mechanisms integrate concerns into artifacts that exhibit crosscutting structure. What we lack and need is a characterization of the design space that these aspect mechanisms inhabit and a model description of their weaving processes. A good design space representation provides a common framework for understanding and evaluating existing mechanisms. A well-understood model of the weaving process can guide the implementor of new aspect mechanisms. It can guide the designer when mechanisms implementing new kinds of weaving are needed. It can also help teach aspect-oriented programming (AOP). In this paper we present and evaluate such a model of the design space for aspect mechanisms and their weaving processes. We model weaving, at an abstract level, as a concern integration process. We derive a weaving process model (WPM) top-down, differentiating a reactive from a nonreactive process. The model provides an in-depth explanation of the key subprocesses used by existing aspect mechanisms.
In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on
Software Engineering, pages 212--221, Shanghai, China
May 20-28, 2006.
ICSE 2006, IEEE Computer Society.
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BibTeX:
@InProceedings{Kojarski:2006:MAM,
Author = "Sergei Kojarski and David H. Lorenz",
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Title = "Modeling Aspect Mechanisms: A Top-Down Approach",
URL = "http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lorenz/papers/icse06/",
Year = 2006,
Pages = "212--221",
}
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