There is a growing demand for rapidly customizing a complex software system such as a real-time operating system (RTOS) using existing module libraries. While object-oriented and/or component-based software technologies are used for this, they are not fully adequate for RTOS customization since RTOSes contain many crosscutting features that interfere with modularization. Aspect-oriented program...

As computational complexity of systems continues to increase, the amount of maintenance required to keep them operational will also increase. Autonomic systems have the aim of reducing the amount of maintenance required by performing certain levels of maintenance themselves. This paper outlines the case of using dynamic AOP to implement such a system. The benefits and issues arising from using ...

In comparison to language-based AOP approaches, aspectoriented frameworks have the inherent advantage of a better integration with the existing development process. In this paper, we discuss some of the less evident advantages of framework-based approaches for general-purpose AOP: ability to build programmatic abstractions, flexibility and dynamic nature, a better integration between aspects an...

Our previous research focused on reducing continuous monitoring overhead by employing architectural design that performs adaptive monitoring. In this paper we explore the use of other AOP or AOP-like tools for instrumentation. The goal is to find a tool that has lower overhead than AspectJ. Support for runtime changes of monitoring configuration is also considered. Our main topic of interest is...

This paper applies a mix of aspect-oriented programming (AOP) and logic meta-programming (LMP) to tackle some concerns of/in legacy environments. We present four different problems, and illustrate —with code— how far AOP+LMP gets us. The legacy environments subjected to this treatment encompass the two major players: C, and (of course) Cobol. The aspect code is based on, respectively, Aspicere ...

Aspect-oriented programming captures crosscutting concerns by introducing the aspect modularity construct. While most of the aspects presented to date result from domainand modeling-related crosscutting, we show how aspect-oriented programming can further assist the software development process. Through various examples we study the use of aspectoriented methods in third-party system integration.

Dynamic Aspect-Oriented Programming (d-AOP) is an important tool to implement adaptation in a wide variety of applications. In particular, large distributed infrastructures, middleware, and pervasive computing environments can greatly benefit from d-AOP to adapt software systems at run time. In this paper, we discuss the design of PROSE, an open source, generic platform for software adaptation....

Object oriented systems are composed by a collection of interacting objects. Distributed object oriented systems consider that all these objects can be located at different computers connected through a network. Reliability and availability are very important trends in the development process of these kinds of systems. In order to improve these features, object replication mechanisms have been ...

Some security concerns, such as secrecy and integrity, are sensitive to flow of information in a program execution. We proposed a new pointcut to aspect-oriented programming (AOP) languages in order to easily implement such security concerns as aspects. The pointcut identifies join points based on the origins of values, and can be used with the other kinds of pointcuts in existing AOP languages...