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An Overview of AspectJ

Authors:

Gregor Kiczales,

Jeffrey Palm, and

William G. GriswoldAuthors Info & Claims

ECOOP '01: Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming

June 2001

Pages 327 - 353

Published: 18 June 2001 Publication History

Abstract

AspectJ is a simple and practical aspect-oriented extension to Java . With just a few new constructs, AspectJ provides support for modular implementation of a range of crosscutting concerns. In AspectJ's dynamic join point model, join points are well-defined points in the execution of the program; pointcuts are collections of join points; advice are special method-like constructs that can be attached to pointcuts; and aspects are modular units of crosscutting implementation, comprising pointcuts, advice, and ordinary Java member declarations. AspectJ code is compiled into standard Java bytecode. Simple extensions to existing Java development environments make it possible to browse the crosscutting structure of aspects in the same kind of way as one browses the inheritance structure of classes. Several examples show that AspectJ is powerful, and that programs written using it are easy to understand.

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An Overview of AspectJ
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types

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