The Virtual Adapter – An Abstraction Mechanism For Weaving Computing Aspects

Abstract

Although the aspect-oriented technology allows aspect weaver to weave aspect components across the function boundary, it seems that current aspect-oriented technologies are not handling the hardwired linkage well. The hardwired linkage can be typically found in reflection- based AOP approaches to date, and it may raise different issues regarding which kind of weavers (general- purposed or domain-specific) is used. This paper considers that the hardwired linkage is not a trivial issue, and might restrict the aspect-oriented concepts to be further practically applied to the large-scaled software development. To deal with the hardwired linkage issues this paper presents the adapter object model.