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Lightweight virtual machine support for AspectJ

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Ryan M. Golbeck,

Igor Ostrovsky,

Gregor KiczalesAuthors Info & Claims

AOSD '08: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development

Pages 180 - 190

https://doi.org/10.1145/1353482.1353504

Published: 31 March 2008 Publication History

Abstract

Advice weaving can be efficiently supported with only lightweight enhancements to existing Virtual Machines. Performing weaving at the Java bytecode (JBC) level while preserving appropriate metadata enables the VM to understand the AspectJ-specific semantics of the code and optimize it. This allows the overhead of advice weaving and performing non-local advice dispatch optimization to occur prior to runtime. It also allows the VM to perform optimizations that are unavailable to a bytecode level weaver.

An experimental implementation shows that this approach can take advantage of previously known macro optimizations of expensive constructs, including cflow, as well as micro optimizations including those based on improved type analysis unavailable to JBC-based advice dispatch. A thorough benchmark evaluation confirms that the use of this architecture does not result in runtime performance overhead and benefits from the implemented optimizations.

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Golbeck RSelby PKiczales G(2010)Late binding of AspectJ adviceProceedings of the 48th international conference on Objects, models, components, patterns10.5555/1894386.1894396(173-191)Online publication date: 28-Jun-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1894386.1894396
Dyer RRajan H(2010)Supporting dynamic aspect-oriented featuresACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology10.1145/1824760.182476420:2(1-34)Online publication date: 8-Sep-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1824760.1824764
Golbeck RSelby PKiczales G(2010)Late Binding of AspectJ AdviceObjects, Models, Components, Patterns10.1007/978-3-642-13953-6_10(173-191)Online publication date: 2010
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13953-6_10

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Lightweight virtual machine support for AspectJ
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Compilers
      1. Runtime environments
      2. Source code generation

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AOSD '08: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development

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DOI:10.1145/1353482

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Golbeck RSelby PKiczales G(2010)Late binding of AspectJ adviceProceedings of the 48th international conference on Objects, models, components, patterns10.5555/1894386.1894396(173-191)Online publication date: 28-Jun-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1894386.1894396
Dyer RRajan H(2010)Supporting dynamic aspect-oriented featuresACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology10.1145/1824760.182476420:2(1-34)Online publication date: 8-Sep-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1824760.1824764
Golbeck RSelby PKiczales G(2010)Late Binding of AspectJ AdviceObjects, Models, Components, Patterns10.1007/978-3-642-13953-6_10(173-191)Online publication date: 2010
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13953-6_10

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