Supporting dynamic crosscutting with partial behavioral reflection: a case study

Author

Rodríguez, Leonardo ; Tanter, Èric ; Noyé, Jacques

Author_Institution

Instituto de Comput., Univ. de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay

fYear

2004

fDate

11-12 Nov. 2004

Firstpage

48

Lastpage

58

Abstract

The relationship between reflection and aspect-oriented programming is still under exploration. This paper reports on an experiment to support a widely-accepted, general-purpose aspect language mechanism - AspectJ´s dynamic crosscutting -, with a model of partial behavioral reflection. We present a first approach to such a mapping, identify some extensions that can improve the effectiveness of the mapping, and validate our proposal through a revisited mapping. These extensions have been integrated into our Java reflective platform, Reflex.

Keywords

Java; object-oriented programming; AspectJ; Java reflective platform; Reflex; aspect language mechanism; aspect-oriented programming; dynamic crosscutting; partial behavioral reflection; revisited mapping; Computer aided software engineering; Fault tolerance; Java; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Parallel processing; Proposals; Protocols; Reflection; Software engineering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science Society, 2004. SCCC 2004. 24th International Conference of the Chilean

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2185-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/QEST.2004.22

Filename

1372104