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A toolkit for weaving aspect oriented UML designs

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Jean-Marc Jézéquel,

François Pennaneac'h,

Noël PlouzeauAuthors Info & Claims

AOSD '02: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Aspect-oriented software development

Pages 99 - 105

https://doi.org/10.1145/508386.508398

Published: 22 April 2002 Publication History

Abstract

Separation of concerns is a basic engineering principle that is also at the core of object-oriented analysis and design methods in the context of the Unified Modeling Language (UML). The UML gives the designer a rich, but somehow disorganized, set of views on her model as well as many features, such as design pattern occurrences, stereotypes or tag values, allowing her to add non-functional information to a model. Aspect-oriented concepts are applied to manage the multitude of design constraints. However, it can then be an overwhelming task to reconcile the various aspects of a model into a working implementation. In this paper, we present our UMLAUT framework as a toolkit for easily building application specific "weavers" for generating detailed design models from high level, aspect oriented UML models. This is illustrated with a toy example of a distributed multimedia application with a weaving generating an implementation model. More ambitious applications are briefly outlined in the conclusion.

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A toolkit for weaving aspect oriented UML designs
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software implementation planning
        Software design techniques
    2. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Compilers
    2. General programming languages
      1. Language features
      2. Language types

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AOSD '02: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Aspect-oriented software development

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DOI:10.1145/508386

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