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A Case Study Implementing Features Using AspectJ

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Christian Kastner,

Sven Apel,

Don BatoryAuthors Info & Claims

SPLC '07: Proceedings of the 11th International Software Product Line Conference

Pages 223 - 232

Published: 10 September 2007 Publication History

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Software product lines aim to create highly configurable programs from a set of features. Common belief and recent studies suggest that aspects are well-suited for implementing features. We evaluate the suitability of AspectJ with respect to this task by a case study that refactors the embedded database system Berkeley DB into 38 features. Contrary to our initial expectations, the results were not encouraging. As the number of aspects in a feature grows, there is a no- ticeable decrease in code readability and maintainability. Most of the unique and powerful features of AspectJ were not needed. We document where AspectJ is unsuitable for implementing features of refactored legacy applications and explain why

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A Case Study Implementing Features Using AspectJ
1. Social and professional topics
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    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
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      2. Software management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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September 2007

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