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Composition patterns: an approach to designing reusable aspects

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Siobhán Clarke,

Robert J. WalkerAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE '01: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering

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Published: 01 July 2001 Publication History

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Requirements such as distribution or tracing have an impact on multiple classes in a system. They are cross-cutting requirements, or aspects. Their support is, by necessity, scattered across those multiple classes. A look at an individual class may also show support for cross-cutting requirements tangled up with the core responsibilities of that class. Scattering and tangling make object-oriented software difficult to understand, extend and reuse. Though design is an important activity within the software lifecycle with well-documented benefits, those benefits are reduced when cross-cutting requirements are present. This paper presents a means to mitigate these problems by separating the design of cross-cutting requirements into composition patterns. Composition patterns require extensions to the UML, and are based on a combination of the subject-oriented model for composing separate, overlapping designs, and UML templates. This paper also demonstrates how composition patterns map to one programming model that provides a solution for separation of cross-cutting requirements in code—aspect-oriented programming. This mapping serves to illustrate that separation of aspects may be maintained throughout the software lifecycle.

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Index Terms

Composition patterns: an approach to designing reusable aspects
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Reusability
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software libraries and repositories

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