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Relational Database Support for Aspect-Oriented Programming

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Objects, Components, Architectures, Services, and Applications for a Networked World (NODe 2002)

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Abstract

Code repositories play a central role in the reuse and mining of existing assets when engineering large, complex software systems. It is, therefore, essential that database support be extended to new programming paradigms as and when they emerge. This paper proposes an approach to support the storage, reuse and mining of aspects - constructs used in Aspect- Oriented Programming (AOP) to separate crosscutting concerns - in AspectJ (an aspect language for Java) using a relational database. The approach is based on mapping an aspect’s anatomy to the relational model hence allowing finegrained queries to be composed. This results in greater flexibility during search and retrieval in contrast with most existing code repositories which store the code as BLObs complemented by meta-data about the code.

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  1. Computing Department, Lancaster University, LA1 4YR, Lancaster, UK

    Awais Rashid & Neil Loughran

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Twente, Postbox 217, 7500, AE Enschede, The Netherlands

    Mehmet Aksit

  2. Department of Computer Science, TU Darmstadt, Alexanderstraße 10, 64283, Darmstadt, Germany

    Mira Mezini

  3. Institute for Computer Science, University of Essen, Schützenbahn 70, 45117, Essen, Germany

    Rainer Unland

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Rashid, A., Loughran, N. (2003). Relational Database Support for Aspect-Oriented Programming. In: Aksit, M., Mezini, M., Unland, R. (eds) Objects, Components, Architectures, Services, and Applications for a Networked World. NODe 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2591. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36557-5_18

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