Aspect-specification based on structural type information

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Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Applied computing table of contents

Dijon, France

SESSION: Programming for separation of concerns (PSC) table of contents

Pages: 1575 - 1579

Year of Publication: 2006

ISBN:1-59593-108-2

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Stefan Hanenberg	University of Duisburg-Essen, Schützenbahn, Essen
Mohammed Al-Mansari	University of Duisburg-Essen, Schützenbahn, Essen
Rainer Unland	University of Duisburg-Essen, Schützenbahn, Essen

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SIGAPP: ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Aspects developed in aspect-oriented systems often need to hook onto multiple objects that share common structural characteristics - such as attributes and operations. In strongly-typed aspect-oriented systems like AspectJ these objects need to be of common type so that pointcuts may designate them and pieces of advice may interact with them. Such type-systems are typically based on nominal types, therefore, aspects cannot interact with objects according to their structural information in a common way. This paper argues that specifying aspects based on a nominal type system is not sufficient and shows that aspect-specifications based on structural characteristics overcome this problem. A corresponding extension of the nominal type systems is proposed and illustrated by means of structural types and compound types.

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