Supporting Dynamic Crosscutting with Partial Behavioral Reflection: A Case Study

Authors:
Leonardo Rodriguez;Eric Tanter;Jacques Noye
Affiliations:
Universidad de la Repú/blica, Uruguay;Universidad de Chile, Chile/ Ecole des Mines de Nantes - INRIA, France;INRIA Rennes, France/ Ecole des Mines de Nantes - INRIA, France
Venue:
QEST '04 Proceedings of the The Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, First International Conference
Year:
2004

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Abstract

The relationship between reflection and aspect-oriented programming is still under exploration. This paper reports on an experiment to support a widely-accepted, general-purpose aspect language mechanism -AspectJ's dynamic crosscutting-, with a model of partial behavioral reflection. We present a first approach to such a mapping, identify some extensions that can improve the effectiveness of the mapping, and validate our proposal through a revisited mapping. These extensions have been integrated into our Java reflective platform, Reflex.