AspectLISA: an aspect-oriented compiler construction system based on attribute grammars

The use of object-oriented techniques and concepts, like encapsulation and inheritance, greatly improves language specifications towards better modularity, reusability and extensibility. Additional improvements can be achieved with aspect-oriented techniques since semantic aspects also crosscut many language constructs. Indeed, aspect-oriented constructs have been already added to some language specifications. The LISA compiler construction system follows an object-oriented approach and has already implemented mechanisms for inheritance, modularity and extensibility. Adding aspects to LISA will lead to more reusable language specifications. In the paper, aspectoriented attribute grammars are introduced, and the underlying ideas are incorporated into AspectLISA, an aspect-oriented compiler generator based on attribute grammars.GRICES - MCTE

Domain-Specific Aspect Languages for Modularizing Crosscutting

The emergence of crosscutting concerns can be observed in various representations of software artifacts (e.g., source code, models, requirements, and language grammars). Although much of the focus of AOP has been on aspect languages that augment the descriptive power of general purpose programming languages, there is also a need for domain-specific aspect languages that address particular crosscutting concerns found in software representations other than traditional source code. This paper discusses the issues involved in the design and implementation of domain-specific aspect languages that are focused within the domain of language specification. Specifically, the paper outlines the challenges and issues that we faced while designing two separate aspect languages that assist in modularizing crosscutting concerns in grammars

Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on Domain specific aspect languages

International audienceAlthough the majority of work in the AOSD community focuses on general-purpose aspect languages (e.g. AspectJ), seminal work on AOSD proposed a number of domainspecific aspect languages, such as COOL for concurrency management and RIDL for serialization, RG, AML, and others. A growing trend of research in the AOSD community is returning to this seminal work, as witnessed by the high attendance rate at the DSAL06 workshop, held as part of GPCE06/OOPSLA06. The workshop aimed to bring the research communities of domain-specific language engineering and domainspecific aspect design together. In the previous successful edition we approached domain-specific aspect languages from a language implementation point of view, where advances in the field of domain-specific language engineering were investigated to answer the implementation challenges of aspect languages. In this second edition, we approached the design and implementation of new domain-specific aspect languages, as well as the composition at all levels (from design to implementation) of these languages or individual features