Leveraging a service-oriented paradigm would significantly affect the way people build software systems. However, to achieve this ambitious vision a solid software development methodology should be in place, comprising specific, service-context patterns as well as appropriate supporting tools which altogether integrate methods and best practices into a stable development environment. This paper...

In multi-stage languages the program code is finalized though a sequence of transformations defined in the program itself, a process known as staging, with stages also referred as metaprograms. Since stages are essentially programs, they may also require application of aspectoriented methods to handle crosscutting concerns, something not considered or supported in existing aspect systems. We in...

This paper presents a proposal for convincing industry of aspect-orientation, as it has been applied within Siemens. The proceeding stresses on the immediate benefits and ease of usage. Starting with an existing application, we show how to improve the performance and how to extend the behavior with only a few code modifications by bringing aspect-orientation into the game. An adequate infrastru...

A. Colyer A. Clement Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is an exciting new development in the field of software engineering. The open-source AspectJt project has taken a leading role in defining what an aspect-oriented programming language should look like and in building tools that enable aspect-oriented techniques to be employed in the development of large-scale commercial software. IBM both c...

Extensible programming languages and their compilers are experimental systems that use highly modular specifications of languages and language extensions in order to allow a variety of language features to be easily imported, by the programmer, into his or her programming environment. Our framework for extensible languages is based on higher-order attribute grammars extended with a mechanism ca...