A toolkit for weaving aspect oriented UML designs

  • Authors:

  • Wai-Ming Ho;Jean-Marc Jézéquel;François Pennaneac'h;Noël Plouzeau

  • Affiliations:

  • Irisa (INRIA & University of Rennes), Campus de Beaulieu;Irisa (INRIA & University of Rennes), Campus de Beaulieu;Irisa (INRIA & University of Rennes), Campus de Beaulieu;Irisa (INRIA & University of Rennes), Campus de Beaulieu

  • Venue:
  • AOSD '02 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Separation of concerns is a basic engineering principle that is also at the core of object-oriented analysis and design methods in the context of the Unified Modeling Language (UML). The UML gives the designer a rich, but somehow disorganized, set of views on her model as well as many features, such as design pattern occurrences, stereotypes or tag values, allowing her to add non-functional information to a model. Aspect-oriented concepts are applied to manage the multitude of design constraints. However, it can then be an overwhelming task to reconcile the various aspects of a model into a working implementation. In this paper, we present our UMLAUT framework as a toolkit for easily building application specific "weavers" for generating detailed design models from high level, aspect oriented UML models. This is illustrated with a toy example of a distributed multimedia application with a weaving generating an implementation model. More ambitious applications are briefly outlined in the conclusion.