A Debug Interface for Debugging Multiple Domain Specific Aspect Languages

Yoav Apter, David Lorenz, Oren Mishali

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Abstract

Research in the area of multi-DSAL development has been mainly devoted to enabling the interoperability of multiple aspect mechanisms. Less attention has been given to making programming with multiple aspect languages practical. For domain specific aspect languages (DSALs) to be used in practice, there is a need for tools that make multi-DSAL development effective. This paper focuses on one such tool: a debugger. We define a multi-DSAL debug interface (MDDI) for inspecting the composition specification and the runtime state and behavior of applications written in multiple DSALs. To implement the interface, a multi-DSAL debug agent and special debug attributes are introduced into the weaving process. A concrete implementation of MDDI over the AWESOME aspect composition framework is presented. For validation we demonstrate a simple command line AWESOMEDEBUGGER that uses the debug interface.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference on Aspect Oriented Software Development (AOSD '12)
Place of PublicationPotsdam, Germany
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages47-58
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9781450310925
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2012
Event11th Annual International Conference on Aspect Oriented Software Development, AOSD'12 - Potsdam, Germany
Duration: 25 Mar 201230 Mar 2012

Publication series

NameAOSD'12 - Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference on Aspect Oriented Software Development

Conference

Conference11th Annual International Conference on Aspect Oriented Software Development, AOSD'12
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityPotsdam
Period25/03/1230/03/12

Keywords

  • Aspect-oriented programming (AOP)
  • Aspect-oriented software engineering (AOSE)
  • AspectJ
  • Awesome
  • Cool
  • Debugger
  • Domain specific aspect languages (DSALs)
  • Domain specific languages (DSLs)
  • Validate

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