Integrating Generative and Aspect-Oriented Technologies

  • Uirá Kulesza PUC-Rio
  • Alessandro Garcia PUC-Rio
  • Carlos Lucena PUC-Rio
  • Arndt von Staa PUC-Rio

Resumo


Over the last years, two new software engineering approaches have been proposed: generative programming and aspect-oriented software development. Generative programming addresses the study and definition of methods and tools that enable the automatic production of system families from a high-level specification. Aspect-oriented software development has been proposed as a technique for improving separation of concerns in the construction of OO software and supporting improved reusability and ease of evolution. The use of aspect-oriented techniques in a definition of a generative approach can bring benefits to the modeling and generation of crosscutting features since early development stages. This paper presents our experience in the definition of an aspect-oriented generative approach. The proposed approach explores the multi-agent systems domain to enable the code generation of agent architectures.

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Publicado
18/10/2004
KULESZA, Uirá; GARCIA, Alessandro; LUCENA, Carlos; STAA, Arndt von. Integrating Generative and Aspect-Oriented Technologies. In: SIMPÓSIO BRASILEIRO DE ENGENHARIA DE SOFTWARE (SBES), 18. , 2004, Brasília/DF. Anais [...]. Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, 2004 . p. 130-146. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbes.2004.23838.