Aspect-Oriented Software Development

week 1:
Historical background
separation of concerns
scattering and tangling

Basic ingredients of an aspect-oriented language

Basics of AspectJ
Two join point models: static and dynamic
Focus first on static join point model

Hw 1: write AspectJ program: for non-production aspect: debugging aspect.

week 2:
AspectJ:
dynamic join point model
structure-shy programming in AspectJ

Hw 2: write AspectJ program for production aspect.
Visitor design pattern, use "all subclasses" operator.
Library example: error handling aspect for book checkout

week 3:
Aspectual Collaborations

Programming with respect to a class graph
Aspectual methods
Adapting collaborations
Personalities: Single class collaborations

Hw 3: Implement special case of single class collaborations with
AspectJ. 

week 4:
Aspectual Collaborations: continued
Mapping aspectual collaborations to abstract AspectJ aspects.

Hw 4: simulate aspectual collaborations in AspectJ.
Use AC implementation.

week 5:
Concern-specific aspect languages
COOL, RIDL, traversals
How can AspectJ be improved: integration of traversals and AspectJ

Project starts

week 6:
HyperJ, composition filters
simulate composition filters and HyperJ examples with AspectJ

week 7 - 10:
Selected papers from AOSD 1
http://trese.cs.utwente.nl/aosd2002.htm

Project reports