Profiling with AspectJ

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 747-777

  Pearce, David J ^a   Webster, Matthew ^b   Berry, Robert ^b   Kelly, Paul H J ^c  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b IBM   (Sweden)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AOP; AspectJ; Java; Performance; Profiling

Indexed keywords

COSTS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

AOP; ASPECTJ;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 34249883568     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: 1097024X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.788     Document Type: Article

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