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Research in Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) has brought up powerful abstractions in order to specify under which conditions an aspect affects the base software. So far, Model-Driven Development (MDD) approaches to AOSD have mostly concentrated on the weaving process and, as a result, they have come up with manifold ways to compose aspect models and base models. All too often, however, the approaches disregard the benefits that the aspect-oriented abstractions can bring to software development, though. This paper discusses the implications that such negligence has on the specification of aspect-oriented models in MDD. Furthermore, it presents a weaver that is able to cope with sophisticated join point selection abstractions, as they are known from many aspect-oriented programming languages, and which go far beyond the selection capabilities provided by current model weavers. By means of this weaver, models can realize both a higher separation of concerns as well as a higher level of abstraction.
This work has been partially supported by MCYT Project TIN2005-09405-C02-01 and EC Grants IST-2-004349-NOE AOSD and IST-033710 AMPLE.
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Sánchez, P., Fuentes, L., Stein, D., Hanenberg, S., Unland, R. (2008). Aspect-Oriented Model Weaving Beyond Model Composition and Model Transformation . In: Czarnecki, K., Ober, I., Bruel, JM., Uhl, A., Völter, M. (eds) Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems. MODELS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5301. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87875-9_53
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