Industry track

Invited Talk: VM-level AOP

Friday, March 18, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Sam Pullara, EIR, Accel Partners

Abstract

Current AOP implementations in Java do their work by modifying the bytecode of the classes at the pointcuts that are specified in the particular AOP language being used or are higher level language constructs. There are several problems with this including safety, side-effects, dynamism, and performance that can be mitigated by moving the AOP machinery into the VM. I will discuss what hooks would be needed and how those hooks would affect current AOP implementations.

Click here for the slides: VMlevelAOP.pdf