Hi Barry:

I will be in Los Angeles May 16 and 17
(Thursday and Friday) ready for giving the talk below.

Please can you let me know whether your talk schedule
has an opening for my topic in this time frame.

Best regards,
-- Karl
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Using Aspect-Oriented Programming for
Debugging, Instrumenting and Architecture-Enforcing 

Karl Lieberherr
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts

Abstract:
Many concerns that programmers need to deal with cannot be 
localized using the modularity mechanisms of established
programming languages. Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) adds
new modularity mechanisms that allow for localization
of crosscutting concerns.

This talk explains the concepts of Aspect-Oriented Programming
and applies them to working with Java programs using
the programming language AspectJ.
The focus is not on writing new functionality in AspectJ
but on how to develop better Java programs using AspectJ.
We are adding new capabilities to AspectJ to facilitate
expression of traversal-related concerns in the style of Demeter.

For this purpose, AspectJ can be used today in commercial projects because
the production code will not contain code written in a relatively new language.
AspectJ is only used for speeding software development by
providing simple facilities for inspecting, debugging and
instrumenting objects and to enforce software architecture.