This paper compares three techniques for separating business and technical concerns in an application: Fractal, Kilim, and JAC. There are all three frameworks of the ObjectWeb consortium. The first two are dedicated to the assembly and configuration of Java components, whereas JAC is a Java framework for aspect-oriented programming. Through the case study of a distributed shared data management...

Although design patterns are becoming increasingly popular as a way to describe solutions to general design problems, question about their integration in language (reification or language support) stays an open question. In this article, after identifying the implementation problems and presenting some approaches, we show how FLO’s connectors allows for the representation and implementation of ...