Generic Concern-Oriented Model Transformations Meet AOP
Separation of concerns allows developers to manage large distributed systems by tackling one problem at a time. Model transformations refine models along one concern-dimension. Aspects encapsulate implementation details that cut across the boundaries of several components. In this position paper, after a short introduction to these emerging technologies, we explain how generic concern-oriented model transformations can meet aspect-oriented programming in order to complete the life-cycle of software application development in a pure MDA-compliant way based on separation of concerns. At the end, we present some requirements that tool vendors should provide if they decide to support such an approach.
2003
An enhanced version is available as Technical Report IC/2003/79, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), School of Computer and Communication Sciences, December 2003
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