Advice is a mechanism used by advanced object-oriented and aspect-oriented
programming languages to augment the behavior of methods in a program. Advice can help …

A crosscut language is used to describe at which points an aspect crosscuts a program. An
important issue is how these points can be captured using the crosscut language without …

Behavioral reflection is a powerful approach for adapting the behavior of running
applications. In this paper we present and motivate partial behavioral reflection, an …

In aspect-oriented programming, pointcuts are used to describe crosscutting structure.
Pointcuts that abstract over irrelevant implementation details are clearly desired to better …

Being able to define and use different aspect languages, including domain-specific aspect
languages, to cleanly modularize concerns of a software system represents a valuable …

Although aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is becoming widely used, the design of the
pointcut language and the generic and reusable description of advice are still research …

Aspect composition is a challenging and multi-faceted issue, generally under-supported by
current AOP languages and frameworks. This paper presents the composition support …

Alternative semantics for aspect-oriented abstractions can be defined by language
designers using extensible aspect compiler frameworks. However, application developers …

Meta-AspectJ (MAJ) is a language for generating AspectJ programs using code templates.
MAJ itself is an extension of Java, so users can interleave arbitrary Java code with AspectJ …

Programming languages are at the heart of software engineering. Since the advent of high-
level programming languages, all improvements have been motivated by the need to be …