Predicate fields allow an object’s structure to vary at runtime based on the object’s state: a predicate field is present or not, depending on the values of other fields. P...
This paper presents a separation of concerns approach to solve the tangling problem of functional and Quality of Service (QoS) concerns in traditional Component-based Software Eng...
An aspect observes the execution of a base program; when certain actions occur, the aspect runs some extra code of its own. In the AspectJ language, the observations that an aspec...
Chris Allan, Pavel Avgustinov, Aske Simon Christen...
As object-oriented class libraries evolve, classes are occasionally deprecated in favor of others with roughly the same functionality. In Java’s standard libraries, for example,...