CCC: An Aspect-Oriented Intermediate Language on .Net Platform

The AOSD tools and methodologies have developed in a rapid speed in Java area. However, no matter how homologous .Net and Java are, AOP tools on .Net platform are still in experimental stage. The complex infrastructure and multi-language support make it hard to establish aspect-oriented programming on .Net. Microsoft provides Microsoft Intermediate Language(MSIL) to facilitate language implementation on .Net platform. But MSIL doesn’t support aspect-oriented languages. To facilitate aspect-oriented language implementation on .Net platform, it is best to provide an aspect-oriented intermediate language. This paper presents CCC, an aspect-oriented intermediate language on .Net platform. CCC stands for Common language Cross Cutter. Any aspect-oriented .Net language could first be transformed to CCC and then woven by CCC compiler. Since CCC supports high-level aspect-oriented language constructs directly, such as aspect, there is a little work to do for language implementation and the developers could concentrate on language design.