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aspect-oriented programming
<programming> (AOP) A style of programming that attempts to abstract out
features common to many parts of the code beyond simple functional modules and
thereby improve the quality of software.
Mechanisms for defining and composing abstractions are essential elements of
programming languages. The design style supported by the abstraction mechanisms
of most current languages is one of breaking a system down into parameterised
components that can be called upon to perform a function.
But many systems have properties that don't necessarily align with the system's
functional components, such as failure handling, persistence, communication,
replication, coordination, memory management, or real-time constraints, and tend
to cut across groups of functional components.
While they can be thought about and analysed relatively separately from the
basic functionality, programming them using current component-oriented languages
tends to result in these aspects being spread throughout the code. The source
code becomes a tangled mess of instructions for different purposes.
This "tangling" phenomenon is at the heart of much needless complexity in
existing software systems. A number of researchers have begun working on
approaches to this problem that allow programmers to express each of a system's
aspects of concern in a separate and natural form, and then automatically
combine those separate descriptions into a final executable form. These
approaches have been called aspect-oriented programming.
Xerox AOP homepage.
AspectJ.
ECOOPP'99 AOP workshop.
(1999-11-21)
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