Modular software design with crosscutting interfaces

Author

Griswold, William G. ; Shonle, Macneil ; Sullivan, Kevin ; Song, Yuanyuan ; Tewari, Nishit ; Cai, Yuanfang ; Rajan, Hridesh

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., California Univ., San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Volume

23

Issue

1

fYear

2006

Firstpage

51

Lastpage

60

Abstract

Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) languages such as AspectJ offer new mechanisms and possibilities for decomposing systems into modules and composing modules into systems. The key mechanism in AspectJ is the advising of crosscutting sets of join points. An aspect module uses a pointcut descriptor (PCD) to declaratively specify sets of points in program executions. Our approach employs crosscut programming interfaces, or XPIs. XPIs are explicit, abstract interfaces that decouple aspects from details of advised code

Keywords

abstract data types; object-oriented languages; object-oriented programming; AOP languages; AspectJ; PCD; XPI; abstract interfaces; advised code; aspect-oriented programming; crosscut programming interfaces; modular software design; pointcut descriptor; Abstracts; Buildings; Concrete; Contracts; Displays; Pattern matching; Protocols; Software design; Testing; aspect-oriented; postconditions; preconditions;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MS.2006.24

Filename

1576657