Aspect-Oriented Programming Beyond Dependency Injection

Dependency injection is a hot topic among industrial developers using component frameworks. This paper first mentions that dependency injection and aspect-oriented programming share the same goal, which is to reduce dependency among components for better reus- ability. However, existing aspect-orien...

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Published inECOOP 2005 - Object-Oriented Programming pp. 121 - 143
Main Authors Chiba, Shigeru, Ishikawa, Rei
Format Book Chapter Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Springer
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Advice Body
Applied sciences
Aspect Implementation
Code Snippet
Component Framework
Computer science; control theory; systems
Exact sciences and technology
Hash Table
Software
Software engineering
Aspect oriented
Software development
Programming language
Object oriented
Reuse
Goal programming
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Summary:Dependency injection is a hot topic among industrial developers using component frameworks. This paper first mentions that dependency injection and aspect-oriented programming share the same goal, which is to reduce dependency among components for better reus- ability. However, existing aspect-oriented programming languages/ frameworks, in particular, AspectJ, are not perfectly suitable for expressing inter-component dependency with a simple and straightforward representation. Their limited kinds of implicit construction of aspect instances (or implementations) cannot fully express inter-component dependency. This paper points out this fact and proposes our aspect-oriented programming system named GluonJ to address this problem. GluonJ allows developers to explicitly construct and associate an aspect implementation with aspect targets.
ISBN:354027992X
9783540279921
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/11531142_6