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Introduction

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Adapted from https://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/doc/released/progguide/starting.html

  • Implemented of AOP
  • Motivation: Modularization of cross-cutting concerns

Advantages​

  • Structure of concern captured explicitly
  • Easier to revise changes
  • Easy to plug in / out
  • Stable implementation

Development Aspects​

  • Easily removed from production builds

Tracing​

  • For tracing internal workings of program

Profiling and Logging​

Pre and Post Conditions​

Contract Enforcement​

  • E.g. only specified methods can be used to add data to a repository

Configuration Management​

Production Aspects​

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Property-based:

Name-based:

Change Monitoring​

  • For supporting code that refreshes the display e.g. indicator for any change

Context Passing​

  • e.g. allow client of figure editor to set color of a figure

Consistent Behavior​

  • e.g. consistent handling of errors