Dynamic and selective combination of extensions in component-based applications
ICSE '01 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming
Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming
ECOOP '01 Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Aspect-Oriented Programming is Quantification and Obliviousness
Aspect-Oriented Programming is Quantification and Obliviousness
A Plea for Grey-Box Components
A Plea for Grey-Box Components
Handbook on Ontologies (International Handbooks on Information Systems)
Handbook on Ontologies (International Handbooks on Information Systems)
Information hiding interfaces for aspect-oriented design
Proceedings of the 10th European software engineering conference held jointly with 13th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Bridging Java and AspectJ through explicit join points
Proceedings of the 5th international symposium on Principles and practice of programming in Java
Test-based pointcuts for robust and fine-grained join point specification
Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
Open modules: modular reasoning about advice
ECOOP'05 Proceedings of the 19th European conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Expressive pointcuts for increased modularity
ECOOP'05 Proceedings of the 19th European conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Managing the evolution of aspect-oriented software with model-based pointcuts
ECOOP'06 Proceedings of the 20th European conference on Object-Oriented Programming
On the evolution of quality conceptualization techniques
The evolution of conceptual modeling
International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies
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In this paper, we propose ontology-based pointcuts, a novel mechanism based on the ideas of AOP, the separation of concerns and system modularization, to enhance components, thus making them more adaptable and evolvable. The core idea of ontologybased pointcuts is to specify pointcuts in terms of ontological concepts instead of patterns that are matched against source code. Components are usually considered as black boxes that can be combined to a complex system using their outer interfaces. In the context of our infrastructure, components are extended by exporting possible adaptation points, which are enriched by ontological information. This ontological metadata represents concepts from a domain model, defined by a domain expert. The ontology is implemented within an intermediate layer that decouples the matching pointcuts from the concrete source level within the components. This enables the application of AOP techniques without detailed knowledge about the component's internals, enabling dynamic and distributed adaptation and reducing the fragile pointcut problem to the component scope. This paper presents the design and the expressiveness of the ontology-based pointcuts. We show several practical examples how to use joinpoint model and the pointcut specification followed by a short discussion.