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Role annotations and adaptive aspect frameworks

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This paper presents a model for improving the adaptiveness of AOP frameworks. While a metadata pointcut can be an effective tool for encapsulating and consuming the program events related to a crosscutting concern, AOP languages do not provide a succinct mechanism for binding certain types of crosscutting object references used in advice. We present a design pattern for writing adaptive aspects that consume role-based annotations, enabling a framework to be written in a manner that diminishes the occurrence of the fragile pointcut problem.

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          LATE '07: Proceedings of the 3rd workshop on Linking aspect technology and evolution
          March 2007
          43 pages
          ISBN:9781595936554
          DOI:10.1145/1275672

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