Detection and resolution of aspect interactions
Rémi Douence, Pascal Fradet, Mario Südholt, 35 - Rennes (France). Inst . de Recherche en Informatique et Systemes Aleatoires (IRISA) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 35 (France). Inst. de Recherche en Informatique et Systemes Aleatoires (IRISA) Rennes-1 Univ., 35 (France). Inst . de Recherche en Informatique et Systemes Aleatoires (IRISA) Institut National des Sciences Appliquees de Rennes (INSA), 35 - Rennes (France). Inst. de Recherche en= Informatique et Systemes Aleatoires (IRISA) Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) · OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique) · 2002
Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) promises separation of concerns at the implementation level. However, aspects are not always orthogonal and aspect interaction is an important problem. Currently there is almost no support for the detection and resolution of such interactions. The programmer is responsible for identifying interactions between conflicting aspects and implementing conflict resolution code. In this paper, we propose a solution to this problem based on a generic framework for AOP. The contributions are threefold: we present a formal and expressive crosscut language, two static conflict analyses and some linguistic support for conflict resolution.