RE-AspectLua - Achieving Reuse in AspectLua

: AspectLua is a Lua-based dynamic aspect-oriented language that follows the original AspectJ concepts. It suffers from the same problem of AspectJ-like languages with regard to limitations in terms of aspect reusability, modularity and heterogeneous interaction. In this paper we propose RE-AspectLua, a new version of AspectLua that combines aspect interfaces tract joinpoints and the use of a connection language, the Lua language, to instantiate, cation composition time, the abstract joinpoints. Thus, the connection language defines the composition of reusable aspects with base code. Using these concepts RE-AspectLua intends to break away from the syntactically manifest coding of aspects in which joinpoints are hard-coded into aspects, thereby promoting general reusability and the heterogeneous composition of an aspect with different base codes. In order to illustrate RE-AspectLua concepts we present two case studies.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: JUCS
• Authors: Thaís Vasconcelos Batista, Maurício Vieira
• Keywords: Combines Aspect Interfaces, Connection Language, Dynamic Aspect-oriented Language, JUCS 2007