Extending AOP to Support Broad Runtime Monitoring Needs.
Amjad Nusayr, Jonathan Emdin Cook · 2009
Abstract—Runtime monitoring, where some part of a pro-gram’s behavior and/or data is observed during execution, is a very useful technique that software developers to use for un-derstanding, analyzing, debugging, and improving their software. Aspect oriented programming is a natural fit for supporting the wide ranging instrumentation needs of runtime monitoring, but so far the limitations of AOP frameworks, namely supporting only code-based weaving and only a limited set of code feature joinpoint types, have hindered the application of AOP to many runtime monitoring needs. In this paper we present ideas for extending AOP to support weaving on dimensions other than source code, and for extending code-based weaving to finer-grained language constructs. I.