A Proposal For Classifying Tangled Code
Stefan Hanenberg · 2002
A lot of different composition mechanisms claim to permit aspect-oriented software development because they are able to handle the problem of tangled code which was the original target of aspect-oriented programming (AOP). However, it becomes hard to compare those different approaches, because they usually focus on different kinds of tangled code. For comparing different approaches it is necessary to find some communalities between tangled code. Such communalities can be used to classify tangled code and in that way the impact of new aspect-oriented approaches can be determined in respect to what classes of tangled code they are able to handle. A general purpose aspectoriented approach should be able to handle all kinds of tangled code.