Alice: Modularization of Middleware Using Aspect-Oriented Programming

Eichberg, Michael; Mezini, Mira

doi:10.1007/11407386_5

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“…The implementation of middleware can also benefit from such crosscutting modularization mechanisms [29,30,69,87].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Assume that these operations return a string result with the vacation package information, the flight information, or accommodation information. The advice (lines [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]) is a sequence activity that executes before the join point activity. At the beginning of the advice, the input parameters of the car rental Web Service are taken from the parent process using the context collection variable ThisProcess(clientrequest) (line 20).…”

Section: Listing 6 the Aspect For Monitoring Execution Timementioning

confidence: 99%

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AO4BPEL: An Aspect-oriented Extension to BPEL

2007

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Process-oriented composition languages such as BPEL allow Web Services to be composed into more sophisticated services using a workflow process. However, such languages exhibit some limitations with respect to modularity and flexibility. They do not provide means for a well-modularized specification of crosscutting concerns such as logging, persistence, auditing, and security. They also do not support the dynamic adaptation of composition at runtime. In this paper, we advocate an aspect-oriented approach to Web Service composition and present the design and implementation of AO4BPEL, an aspect-oriented extension to BPEL. We illustrate through examples how AO4BPEL makes the composition specification more modular and the composition itself more flexible and adaptable.

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“…The implementation of middleware can also benefit from such crosscutting modularization mechanisms [29,30,69,87].…”

Section: 22mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Listing 6 the Aspect For Monitoring Execution Timementioning

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AO4BPEL: An Aspect-oriented Extension to BPEL

2007

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“…Several prior AOP approaches aim at improving various properties of middleware systems, with the primary focus on modularization [Zhang and Jacobsen 2003;Eichberg and Mezini 2004].…”

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Expressive and Extensible Parameter Passing for Distributed Object Systems

Tilevich

Gopal

2011

ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.

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In modern distributed object systems, reference parameters to a remote method are passed according to their runtime type. This design choice limits the expressiveness, readability, and maintainability of distributed applications. Further, to extend the built-in set of parameter passing semantics of a distributed object system, the programmer has to understand and modify the underlying middleware implementation. To address these design shortcomings, this article presents (i) a declarative and extensible approach to remote parameter passing that decouples parameter passing semantics from parameter types, and (ii) a plugin-based framework, DeXteR, which enables the programmer to extend the built-in set of remote parameter passing semantics, without having to understand or modify the underlying middleware implementation. DeXteR treats remote parameter passing as a distributed cross-cutting concern and uses aspect-oriented and generative techniques. DeXteR enables the implementation of different parameter passing semantics as reusable application-level plugins, applicable to application, system, and third-party library classes. The expressiveness, flexibility, and extensibility of the approach is validated by adding several non-trivial remote parameter passing semantics (i.e., copy-restore, lazy, streaming) to Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI) as DeXteR plugins.

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“…Alice (Eichberg and Mezini, 2005) is a middleware that proposes the combination of aspects and annotations to implement extra-functional services, such as authentication and sessions. AspectJ2EE (Cohen and Gil, 2004) proposes the use of AOP to implement open, flexible and extensible container middleware.…”

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Collocation optimizations in an aspect-oriented middleware system

Valente

Palhares

2007

Journal of Systems and Software

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In distributed object-oriented systems, there are situations where client and server objects are deployed in the same address space. In such scenarios, it is possible to dispatch remote calls without having to transverse the infrastructure provided by the underlying communication middleware system and thus without incurring the overhead of using a networking loopback interface. Such optimizations are called collocation optimizations. In this paper we describe an implementation of collocation that is centered on aspect-oriented programming abstractions. This implementation provides high degrees of modularization, configurability and adaptability than current objectoriented support to collocation. The paper also presents results about the performance gains derived from the optimization proposed.

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Alice: Modularization of Middleware Using Aspect-Oriented Programming

Cited by 15 publications

References 19 publications

AO4BPEL: An Aspect-oriented Extension to BPEL

AO4BPEL: An Aspect-oriented Extension to BPEL

Expressive and Extensible Parameter Passing for Distributed Object Systems

Collocation optimizations in an aspect-oriented middleware system

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