Virtual machine support for stateful aspects

Yuri Phink, Amiram Yehudai

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Abstract

State Machines are very useful for modeling behavior of reactive systems. Stateful aspects have been proposed as a way to declaratively attach advice to transitions in a State Machine, so that the State Machine structure is seen in the implementation. Vanderperren et al. proposed an extension of the JAsCo Aspect-Oriented Programming Language for stateful aspects. This work proposes a low-overhead stateful aspects mechanism with the same semantics as JAsCo’s, built as an extension of Steamloom, a VM-supported AOP solution. The interface of our mechanism is similar to the aspect interface provided by Steamloom, with minimal augmentation. We provide detailed overhead analysis that highlights the advantages of our implementation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationObjects, Components, Models and Patterns - 46th International Conference, TOOLS EUROPE 2008, Proceedings
EditorsRichard F. Paige, Bertrand Meyer
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages80-99
Number of pages20
ISBN (Print)9783540698234
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event46th International Conference on Objects, Components, Models and Patterns, TOOLS EUROPE 2008 - Zurich, Switzerland
Duration: 30 Jun 20084 Jul 2008

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Volume11
ISSN (Print)1865-1348

Conference

Conference46th International Conference on Objects, Components, Models and Patterns, TOOLS EUROPE 2008
Country/TerritorySwitzerland
CityZurich
Period30/06/084/07/08

Keywords

  • Aspect oriented programming
  • Stateful aspects
  • VM support for AOP

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