Abstract
Aspect Oriented Programming is increasingly being used for the practical coding of cross-cutting concerns woven throughout an application. However, most existing AOP point-cut definition languages don’t distinguish in their application between different systems across a network. For network security there is a need to apply different aspects depending on the role a piece of code has within the larger networked system, and a new approach for this is therefore required. In this chapter we present a formalism for how this might be approached, proposing a way to capture distributed point-cuts for applying different aspects in different parts of the network. The method is based on templates that match properties within the code, and a set of flexible relationships that can be defined between them.
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The authors are indebted to Eduardo Pena Viña of Télécom Bretagne for identifying an error that appeared in the original version of this example.
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under grant no 257930 (Aniketos). The authors are especially grateful to Francisco Ortín and Miguel García at the University of Oviedo in Spain for their contributions to this work. We would also like to thank Eduardo Pena Viña of Télécom Bretagne for interesting correspondence on the topic that led to improvements in the text.
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Llewellyn-Jones, D., Shi, Q., Merabti, M. (2014). Extending AOP Principles for the Description of Network Security Patterns. In: Blackwell, C., Zhu, H. (eds) Cyberpatterns. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04447-7_6
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