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Awesome: an aspect co-weaving system for composing multiple aspect-oriented extensions

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Sergei Kojarski,

David H. LorenzAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 42, Issue 10

Pages 515 - 534

https://doi.org/10.1145/1297105.1297065

Published: 21 October 2007 Publication History

Abstract

Domain specific aspect-oriented language extensions offer unique capabilities to deal with a variety of cross cutting concerns. Ideally, one should be able to use several of these extensions together in a single program. Unfortunately, each extension generally implements its own specialized weaver and the different weavers are incompatible. Even if the weavers were compatible, combining them is a difficult problem to solve in general, because each extension definesits own language with new semantics. In this paper we present a practical composition framework, named A<scp>wesome</scp>, for constructing a multi-extension weaver by plugging together independently developed aspect mechanisms. The framework has a component-based and aspect-oriented architecture that facilitates the development and integration of aspect weavers. To be scalable, the framework provides a default resolution of feature interactions in the composition. To be general, the framework provides means for customizing the composition behavior. Furthermore, to be practically useful, there is no framework-associated overhead on the runtime performance of compiled aspect programs. To illustrate the A<scp>wesome</scp> framework concretely, we demonstrate the construction of a weaver for a multi-extension AOP language that combines Cool and AspectJ. However, the composition method is not exclusive to Cool and AspectJ-it can be applied to combine any comparable reactive aspect mechanisms.

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 42, Issue 10

Proceedings of the 2007 OOPSLA conference

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