JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 13(6): 753-766, doi: 10.3217/jucs-013-06-0753
Optimized Compilation of Around Advice for Aspect Oriented Programs
expand article infoEduardo S. Cordeiro‡, Roberto S. Bigonha‡, Mariza Andrade Silva Bigonha§, Fabio Tirelo‡
‡ Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil§ Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Corresponding author: Eduardo Cordeiro ( cordeiro@dcc.ufmg.br )

© Eduardo Cordeiro, Roberto Bigonha, Mariza Andrade Silva Bigonha, Fabio Tirelo.
This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.
Citation: Cordeiro ES, Bigonha RS, Bigonha MAS, Tirelo F (2007) Optimized Compilation of Around Advice for Aspect Oriented Programs. JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 13(6): 753-766. https://doi.org/10.3217/jucs-013-06-0753
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Abstract
The technology that supports Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) tools is inherently intrusive, since it changes the behavior of base application code. Advice weaving performed by AspectJ compilers must introduce crosscutting behavior defined in advice into Java programs without causing great performance overhead. This papershows the techniques applied by the ajc and abc AspectJ compilers for around advice weaving, and identifies problems in code they produce. The problems analyzed are advice and shadow implementation repetition and context variable repetition. Performance gain provided by solving these problems is discussed, showing that bytecodesize, running time and memory consumption can be reduced by these optimizations. It is assumed that the reader is familiar with AOP and AspectJ constructs.
Keywords
aspect-oriented programming, optimized compilation, advice weaving