Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development VIII

The eighth issue in the Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development series opens with two general submissions. One proposes a framework for building aspect weavers, and the other offers patterns for creating aspects that can be reused.

A special section of five papers then turns to practical deployment. Its lead contribution is an invited essay tracing how AspectJ has moved from a much-discussed novelty to a dependable tool in enterprise computing.

The other four papers examine specific industrial uses of aspect technology. They cover a telecommunications platform, a framework that adds user assistance to applications developed separately, a platform for digital publishing, and a framework for analyzing and transforming program code.