A UML-based aspect-oriented design notation for AspectJ
Dominik Stein, Stefan Hanenberg, Rainer Unland · 2002
AspectJ is a well-established programming language for the implementation of aspect-oriented programs. It supports the aspect-oriented programming paradigm by providing a special unit, called aspect, which encapsulates crosscutting code. While with AspectJ a suitable aspect-oriented programming language is at hand, no feasible modeling language is available that supports the design of AspectJ programs. In this work, such a design notation for AspectJ programs is presented based on the UML. It provides representations for all language constructs in AspectJ and specifies an UML implementation of AspectJ's weaving mechanism. The design notation eases the perception of aspect-orientation and AspectJ programs. It carries over the advantages of aspect-orientation to the design level.