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Adding trace matching with free variables to AspectJ

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Adding trace matching with free variables to AspectJ
An aspect observes the execution of a base program; when certain actions occur, the aspect runs some extra code of its own. In the AspectJ language, the observations that an aspect can make are confined to the current action: it is not possible to directly observe the history of a computation. Recently, there have been several interesting proposals for new history-based language features, most notably by Douence et al. and by Walker and Viggers. In this paper, we present a new history-based language feature called tracematches that enables the programmer to trigger the execution of extra code by specifying a regular pattern of events in a computation trace. We have fully designed and implemented tracematches as a seamless extension of AspectJ. A key innovation in our tracematch approach is the introduction of free variables in the matching patterns. This enhancement enables a whole new class of applications in which events can be matched not only by the event kind, but also by the va...
Chris Allan, Pavel Avgustinov, Aske Simon Christen
Added 28 Jun 2010
Updated 28 Jun 2010
Type Conference
Year 2005
Where OOPSLA
Authors Chris Allan, Pavel Avgustinov, Aske Simon Christensen, Laurie J. Hendren, Sascha Kuzins, Ondrej Lhoták, Oege de Moor, Damien Sereni, Ganesh Sittampalam, Julian Tibble
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