XAspects: An extensible system for domain-specific aspect languages

Proceedings of the Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 28-37

  Shonle, MacNeil ^a   Lieberherr, Karl ^b   Shah, Ankit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspect oriented programming; Domain specific languages; Generative programming; Language extensions

Indexed keywords

ASPECT-ORIENTED; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; DOMAIN-SPECIFIC LANGUAGES; EXTENSIBLE SYSTEMS; GENERAL ASPECTS; GENERATIVE PROGRAMMING; LANGUAGE EXTENSIONS; LANGUAGE FEATURES; OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; PLUG-INS; PROGRAMMING SOLUTIONS; SEPARATION OF CONCERNS;

ASPECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM ORIENTED LANGUAGES;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 79951602751     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/949344.949349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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