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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kleyman, M.
• Tyszberowicz, S.
• Yehudai, A.

Titel

Refactoring Aspects into Java Code

Ist Teil von

• IEEE International Conference on Software-Science, Technology & Engineering (SwSTE'07), 2007, p.35-47

Ort / Verlag

IEEE

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Quelle

IEEE Xplore Digital Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• One of the principles of the agile development methodology is to "welcome changing requirements even late in development". Refactoring is a major technique used to cope with changes. It enables to reorganize code while preserving the external behavior. Several refactorings can be performed automatically. Aspect oriented programming (AOP) is a powerful technology that greatly improves programmer's ability to quickly introduce changes to a software system. AOP enables easily modifying behavior of numerous locations in the system code or adding new behavior. AOP is perceived by some people not to be mature enough; hence they avoid using it in production software. We have developed ACME, a prototype tool that implements a refactoring process for aspects. ACME enables a developer to convert AspectJ code to pure Java code according to conversion patterns. The available patterns are creating a singleton class from an aspect and merging aspects into existing classes. The tool creates modular and readable object-oriented code. This paper presents ACME functionality using example transformations and discusses the tool's applicability and decisions made during its design.