Dynamic Aspect Support for Native Code

Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) has become an important paradigm not only in systems based on high-level virtual machines like Java and .NET, but also for native code executed directly by a computer´s CPU. In contrast to Javaand .NET-based systems, however, the number of ways in which aspect code can be introduced into native code seems to be severely restricted. This paper presents different approaches to provide support for aspect weaving in native code, ranging from interaction with configurable hardware to the integration of a virtual machine into kernel code. Furthermore, it presents a novel design and implementation for running an operating system (OS) kernel implemented in terms of low-level virtual machine instructions on top of a microkernel in order to provide improved support for dynamic aspect deployment