The modularization and composition of concerns that are characteristic of aspect-oriented software development can be specified and implemented in various ways, and can be applied to various representations of software. Yet, despite these differences, there are important similarities. This position paper describes a composition toolkit that is intended to capture these similarities, providing a common back end for AOSD tools that involve composition or weaving. We are currently building the next generation of Hyper/J, and related tools, on this support. We believe that it will also be suitable as a basis for tools supporting other AOSD approaches. The toolkit is intended: to supply a base of primitive operations satisfying three goals:
- they provide a common base for weaving that suits a variety of purposes and of AOSD approaches,
- they enable support for applying weaving to different software representations and artifacts,
- they are capable of representing the weaving required by a variety implementation strategies for AOSD
By: William H. Harrison, Vincent Kruskal, Harold L. Ossher, Peri L. Tarr, Frank Tip
Published in: RC22612 in 2002
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