posted on 2012-06-06, 10:30authored byÉric Tanter, Kris Gybels, Marcus Denker, Alexandre Bergel
Context-aware applications behave differently depending on
the context in which they are running. Since context-specific behavior
tends to crosscut base programs, it can advantageously be implemented
as aspects. This leads to the notion of context-aware aspects, i.e., aspects
whose behavior depends on context. This paper analyzes the issue of
appropriate support from the aspect language to both restrict the scope
of aspects according to the context and allow aspect definitions to access
information associated to the context.We propose an open framework for
context-aware aspects that allows for the definition of first-class contexts
and supports the definition of context awareness constructs for aspects,
including the ability to refer to past contexts, and to provide domainand
application-specific constructs.
History
Publication
5th International Symposium on Software Composition (SC 2006);
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Note
peer-reviewed
Other Funding information
Milenium Nucleous Centre for Web Research, SFI, Swiss National Science Foundation
Rights
The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com