This demonstration, based on joint work with Dr. Johan Brichau, proposes an extension of the model of Intensional Views to document and introduce aspects in an object-oriented system, and argues why this approach may lead to more evolvable aspect-oriented programs. In particular, we argue how it addresses the "fragile pointcut problem", by declaring the pointcuts at a more conceptual level, referring to conceptual views over the source code, rather than defining them directly in terms of how the base code is structured. This indirection, combined with a means of verifying where and why the source code does not match the conceptual views, allows us to detect automatically potential evolution conflicts.

Presenters

Andy Kellens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Kim Mens (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Johan Brichau, University of Lille / INRIA, Belgium

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