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Aspect Oriented Software Development: Prepared By: Ebru Doğan

This document discusses aspect-oriented software development and programming. It introduces separation of concerns and how some concerns are cross-cutting and difficult to modularize. Aspect-oriented programming addresses this by encapsulating cross-cutting concerns into aspects that can be woven into the core functionality. The key concepts of aspect-oriented programming including join points, pointcuts, advice, and weaving are explained. Example technologies like AspectJ are also covered.

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Aspect Oriented Software Development: Prepared By: Ebru Doğan

This document discusses aspect-oriented software development and programming. It introduces separation of concerns and how some concerns are cross-cutting and difficult to modularize. Aspect-oriented programming addresses this by encapsulating cross-cutting concerns into aspects that can be woven into the core functionality. The key concepts of aspect-oriented programming including join points, pointcuts, advice, and weaving are explained. Example technologies like AspectJ are also covered.

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ASPECT ORIENTED

SOFTWARE
DEVELOPMENT

Prepared By: Ebru Doğan


Presentation Outline

1. Current Methods and Languages


2. Separation of Concerns (SOC)
3. Problem: cross-cutting
4. Concepts of Aspect-Oriented Development
5. Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP)
6. Applications: Tracer example
7. Integration Aspects and Components
8. Conclusions
9. References
Current Methods and Languages

 Support abstraction mechanisms for breaking


a system down into components
 Concentrate on finding and composing
functional units
Benefits of Good Modularity
 Also known as “clean separation of
concerns”
 no scattered code
 no tangling
 highly cohesive & loosely coupled
Separation of Concerns - Cohesion

 Cohesive component performs only one


concern/task
Separation of Concerns - Coupling

 Two components are independent if they do not


have interactions
 Highly coupled components have many
dependencies/interactions
Modularity is not always possible...

 Some concerns don’t localize to objects


… their code tends to be orthogonal to the
rest of the requirements
… and is spread out through many modules
Examples of crosscutting concerns
 Synchronization
 Real-time constraints
 Error-checking
 Object interaction constraints
 Memory management
 Persistency
 Security
 Caching
 Logging
 Monitoring
 Testing
 Domain specific optimization
 ...
Example - Figure Editor - Design
Figure Editor Example –cont’d
Crosscutting Concern - Example
Aspect-oriented development
 Aspect-oriented development addresses separation
of concerns (SOC)
 Concerns are associated with cross-cutting
 Cross-cutting concerns are implemented as aspects
and are dynamically woven into a program
Motivation for
Aspect-Oriented Programming
 Programming paradigm for encapsulating
crosscutting concerns into aspects.
 AOP builds on top of other programming paradigms:
object-oriented, procedural or functional. It does not
supplant them.
Key Abstractions for
Different Programming Paradigms

Paradigm Abstraction Modularization

Structured control flow control structure


programming

Procedural computations procedure


programming

Object-oriented data types class/object


programming

Aspect-Oriented crosscutting aspect


programming concerns
Concepts of AOP (I)
 Aspect: unit encapsulating a crosscutting concern.
 Join point: point in the execution of a program
where an aspect might intervene.
 “[...] whenever condition C arises, perform action A”
 Pointcut:expression of a subset of join points (condition C)
 Advice: piece of code for action A.
 Pointcuts and advice encapsulated into aspects.
Concepts of AOP (II)

 Weaving
Few Examples of Existing
AOP technologies

 AspectJ
 HyperJ
 AspectC++
 Aspect#
 Caesar
 CompositionFilters
 AspectWerkz
 JBoss-AOP
Most Popular AOP technology

 AspectJ
 a general purpose AO programming language
 just as Java is a general-purpose OO language
 extension to Java
AspectJ

 Five simple steps to create an AOP


1. Define the core/base functionality classes
2. Define the aspect class
3. Define the pointcut
4. Declare the advice
5. Weave & Compile
Tracer Example – Without AOP
Tracer Example – With AOP
Advantages of AOP

 Improves performance
 Allows better code reuse
 Enables better code encapsulation
Componentizing Aspects

 Representing each aspect as a single


reusable component
 Map the characteristics of a component on
aspect
 Explore the applicability of concepts on
aspect
Conclusions

 Crosscutting concerns are typically scattered


over several modules and result in tangled
code.
 This reduces the modularity and as such the
quality of the software system.
 AOSD provides explicit abstractions
mechanisms to represent these so-called
aspects and compose these into programs.
 Increases the modularity of systems.
References

 http://www.aosd.net/
 http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-
oriented_programming
 http://csl.ensm-douai.fr/fakih/phd
 [Fil05] “Aspect-Oriented Software
Development” by R.Filman et al., ISBN:
0321219767

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