Aspect-Oriented Programming and the Object Infrastructure Framework

 

Abstract

Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) is an emerging technology that allows the separate expression of different programming concerns while nevertheless providing mechanisms for weaving these separate concerns together into a complete program. AOP offers the hope of being able to independently describe and maintain "ilities" such as reliability, security, quality of service, and manageability. Advantages of this approach include ility code reuse, easier system evolution, more reliable programs, reducing the demand for application programmers to become experts in complex "computer science algorithms," and the ability to modify the behavior of existing run-time modules. In this talk I present a basic taxonomy of AOP, and describe our work in developing the Object Infrastructure Framework (OIF). OIF is a system that employs AOP techniques to simplify developing distributed applications. Key features of OIF are the ability to dynamically "inject" independent behaviors on both sides of the communication path between system components, novel communication channels among injectors and between such injectors and the application itself, and a high-level specification language for expressing the mapping between desired ilities and application code.

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