Adapting Virtual Machine Techniques for Seamless Aspect Support

Christoph Bockisch; Matthew Arnold; Tom Dinkelaker; Mira Mezini

doi:10.1145/1167515.1167483

Adapting Virtual Machine Techniques for Seamless Aspect Support

Christoph Bockisch, Matthew Arnold, Tom Dinkelaker, Mira Mezini

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Abstract

Current approaches to compiling aspect-oriented programs are inefficient. This inefficiency has negative effects on the productivity of the development process and is especially prohibitive for dynamic aspect deployment. In this work, we present how well-known virtual machine techniques can be used with only slight modifications to support fast aspect deployment while retaining runtime performance. Our implementation accelerates dynamic aspect deployment by several orders of magnitude relative to mainstream aspect-oriented environments. We also provide a detailed comparison of alternative implementations of execution environments with support for dynamic aspect deployment.

Original language	Undefined
Pages	109-124
Number of pages	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1167515.1167483
Publication status	Published - Oct 2006
Event	21st Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA 2006 - Portland, OR, USA Duration: 22 Oct 2006 → 26 Oct 2006

Conference

Conference	21st Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA 2006
Period	22/10/06 → 26/10/06
Other	22-26 October 2006

Keywords

Dynamic Deployment
Aspect Oriented Programming
virtual machine support
CR-D.3
EWI-17736
envelope-based weaving
Aspect Weaving
IR-79919

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10.1145/1167515.1167483

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