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An Overview of AspectJ

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ECOOP 2001 — Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2001)

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AspectJ™ is a simple and practical aspect-oriented extension to Java.. With just a few new constructs, AspectJ provides support for modular implementation of a range of crosscutting concerns. In AspectJ’s dynamic join point model, join points are well-defined points in the execution of the program; pointcuts are collections of join points; advice are special method-like constructs that can be attached to pointcuts; and aspects are modular units of crosscutting implementation, comprising pointcuts, advice, and ordinary Java member declarations. AspectJ code is compiled into standard Java bytecode. Simple extensions to existing Java development environments make it possible to browse the crosscutting structure of aspects in the same kind of way as one browses the inheritance structure of classes. Several examples show that AspectJ is powerful, and that programs written using it are easy to understand.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, 201-2366 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada

    Gregor Kiczales

  2. Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA La Jolla, CA 92093, USA

    Erik Hilsdale, Jim Hugunin, Mik Kersten & Jeffrey Palm

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA

    William G. Griswold

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Kiczales, G., Hilsdale, E., Hugunin, J., Kersten, M., Palm, J., Griswold, W.G. (2001). An Overview of AspectJ. In: Knudsen, J.L. (eds) ECOOP 2001 — Object-Oriented Programming. ECOOP 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2072. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45337-7_18

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