Pluggable AOP: designing aspect mechanisms for third-party composition

Studies of Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) usually focus on a language in which a specific aspect extension is integrated with a base language. Languages specified in this manner have a fixed, non-extensible AOP functionality. This paper argues the need for AOP to support the integration and use of multiple domain-specific aspect extensions together. We study the more general case of integrating a base language with a set of third-party aspect extensions for that language. We present a general mixin-based semantic framework for implementing dynamic aspect extensions in such a way that multiple, independently developed aspect mechanisms can be subject to third-party composition and work collaboratively. Principles governing the design of a collaborative aspect mechanism are aspectual effect exposure and implementation hiding. Categories and Subject Descriptors

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: OOPSLA
• Authors: Sergei Kojarski, David H. Lorenz
• Keywords: Aspect Extensions, OOPSLA 2005, Specific Aspect Extension, Third-party Aspect Extensions