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Advanced, Language-Based Variability Mechanisms

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After reading the chapter, you should be able to explain the key concepts of collaboration-based design and feature-oriented programming, understand the key mechanisms of AspectJ and write simple aspects in this language, implement product lines with feature-oriented and aspect-oriented languages and their combination, discuss trade-offs between these and previous implementation techniques, contrast feature-oriented and aspect-oriented languages regarding their key mechanisms select a suitable implementation technique for a given product line, critically discuss the conflict between preplanning and obliviousness, and discuss strategies of developing feature-oriented extensions of other code and noncode languages.

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Notes

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    There is an ongoing discussion on the role and goals of modularity (Ostermann et al. 2011); we use a liberal interpretation to which modules are a code structuring mechanism; see Sect. 3.2.4.

  2. 2.

    Jak’s keyword Super is similar to Java’s keyword super. While Super refers to the method that has been overridden by a class refinement, super refers to the method that has been overridden by a subclass. To avoid confusion, other feature-oriented languages use instead keywords such as original (Apel et al. 2009).

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    http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/

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    Note that AspectJ advice may bind to Java annotations, which makes it effectively a combination of an annotation-based and a composition-based approach.

  5. 5.

    Note that the original aspect has been split into two pieces (a base aspect and a subsequent refinement), which is discussed elsewhere (Apel et al. 2007).

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    http://www.aspectc.org/

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    http://www.dsg.cs.tcd.ie/dynamic/?category_id=169

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    http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/schwartz/ATS.html

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    http://fosd.net/fh

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    http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/dsb/cs392f/Videos/FeatureIDE/

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    http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/

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    http://www.aspectc.org/

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    http://research.msrg.utoronto.ca/ACC

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    http://www.eclipse.org/ajdt/

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    http://acdt.aspectc.org/

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    http://www.jboss.org/jbossaop

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    http://www.springsource.org/

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    http://wwwiti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/iti_db/fcc/

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    http://spl2go.cs.ovgu.de/

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    http://sourceforge.net/projects/ajhotdraw/

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    http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~greenwop/tao/

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    http://mobilemedia.sourceforge.net/

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  1. University of Passau, 94032, Passau, Germany

    Sven Apel

  2. The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA

    Don Batory

  3. Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Christian Kästner

  4. Fak. Informatik, Inst. Technische/Betriebliche, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106, Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

    Gunter Saake

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Apel, S., Batory, D., Kästner, C., Saake, G. (2013). Advanced, Language-Based Variability Mechanisms. In: Feature-Oriented Software Product Lines. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37521-7_6

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