Aspect-Oriented Programming is an emerging software engineering paradigm. It offers new constructs and tools improving separation of crosscutting concerns into single units called aspects. AspectJ, the most used aspect-oriented programming language, represents an extension of Java. In fact, existing object-oriented programming languages suffer from a serious limitation in modularizing adequatel...

A programming language which supports the adequate speciication of both { the parallel and sequential { aspects of a program establishes the optimal basis for a parallel programming methodology. Parallel languages which are entirely based on textual representations are not the best choice for describing parallelism. The main drawbacks stem from the fact that the sequential order of textual repr...

This paper discusses the impact of Aspect oriented programming (AOP) on Java-based communication middleware (Java RMI) system and need to introduce aspects in Java RMI systems. There are certain properties like tracing, exception handling, distribution and profiling in Java RMI system which we cannot encapsulate properly using object oriented programming and lead to the problem of code tangling...

A number of proposals exist how to support the concept of roles at the level of programming languages. While some of these proposals indeed exhibit very promising properties, the concept of roles has not found its way into mainstream programming languages. We argue that this is due to the richness of the concept of roles and the fact that each existing proposal focuses on some aspects of roles ...

This report is a highly compressed review of some of the basic ideas in a formalism for visual programming and visualisation of program execution in Prolog. Some previously unreported refinements of the formalism are illustrated. A new, simple, expressively complete visual formalism for programming in Prolog is presented. The formalism is noted to be equivalent to the standard textual notation ...

A number of proposals exist how to support the concept of roles at the level of programming languages. While some of these proposals indeed exhibit very promising properties, the concept of roles has not found its way into mainstream programming languages. We argue that this is due to the richness of the concept of roles and the fact that each existing proposal focusses on some aspects of roles...

Aspect-oriented programming provides the programmer with means to cross-cut conventional program structures, in particular the class hierarchies of object-oriented programming. This paper studies the use of aspect orientation in structuring syntax directed compilers. Syntax-directed compilers are often speci ed by means of attribute grammars. Such speci cations are typically structured by produ...

Research into the cognitive aspects of programming originated in the study of professional programmers (either experts or those learning to program). As personal computers become widespread, and most new domestic appliances incorporate microprocessors, many more people are engaging in programming-like activities. Some of these are studied as “end-user” programmers, by analogy to professional pr...

Traditional object-oriented programming (OOP) paradigm focused on structuring systems into distinguished objects that work together to realize a system. However, when dealing with non-functional or quality requirements, such as security and fault tolerance, these are not easily structured into separate objects, but do rather crosscut a set of objects. Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) separate ...