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Application-Specific Models and Pointcuts Using a Logic Meta Language

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Advances in Smalltalk (ISC 2006)

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In contemporary aspect-oriented languages, pointcuts are usually specified directly in terms of the structure of the source code. The definition of such low-level pointcuts requires aspect developers to have a profound understanding of the entire application’s implementation and often leads to complex, fragile, and hard to maintain pointcut definitions. To resolve these issues, we present an aspect-oriented programming system that features a logic-based pointcut language that is open such that it can be extended with application-specific pointcut predicates. These predicates define an application-specific model that serves as a contract that base-program developers provide and aspect developers can depend upon. As a result, pointcuts can be specified in terms of this more high-level model of the application which confines all intricate implementation details that are otherwise exposed in the pointcut definitions themselves.

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  1. Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

    Andy Kellens, Kris Gybels & Theo D’Hondt

  2. Département d’Ingénierie Informatique, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

    Johan Brichau & Kim Mens

  3. Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale de Lille, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France

    Johan Brichau

  4. Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Potsdam, Germany

    Robert Hirschfeld

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Brichau, J., Kellens, A., Gybels, K., Mens, K., Hirschfeld, R., D’Hondt, T. (2007). Application-Specific Models and Pointcuts Using a Logic Meta Language. In: De Meuter, W. (eds) Advances in Smalltalk. ISC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4406. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71836-9_1

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