Towards a standard interface for runtime inspection in AOP environments
Katharina Mehner, Awais Rashid · 2002
Katharina Mehner*, Awais Rashid Computing Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YR, UK [email protected], [email protected] Abstract In this position paper we discuss support for runtime inspection of aspect-oriented programs. Debuggers are the most prominent example for tools using runtime inspection. However, such support is also required by other runtime-based techniques such as tracing and monitoring. These techniques play an important role in testing, maintenance, and also in debugging and have to be included in a general discussion of runtime inspection support. In order to avoid proprietary implementations for each tool relying on runtime information a standard interface is needed. We argue that such a standard interface should be grounded in a common foundation for AOP.