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Composing aspects with aspects

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AOSD '10: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development

Pages 157 - 168

https://doi.org/10.1145/1739230.1739249

Published: 15 March 2010 Publication History

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Aspect-oriented programming languages modularize crosscutting concerns by separating the concerns from a base program in aspects. What they do not modularize well is the code needed to manage interactions between the aspects themselves. Therefore aspects cannot always be composed with other aspects without requiring invasive modifications. This paper proposes a join point model that makes it possible to express aspect composition itself as an aspect, liberating the composed aspects from composition-specific code. We have implemented this new join point model in our Oarta language, an extension of AspectJ, and we show how to use it to write aspects that manage aspect interactions.

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Composing aspects with aspects
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Classes and objects

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AOSD '10: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development

March 2010

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ISBN:9781605589589

DOI:10.1145/1739230

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Jean-Marc Jezequel
Université of Rennes 1 and INRIA, France
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