Traits Programming with AspectJ

Simon Denier (1)

1 OBASCO - Objects, aspects and components

Traits as defined by Schärli, Ducasse et al. allow for the explicit handling of a mean- ingful set of methods. This article presents an attempt to map the trait model from Smalltalk to the Java language. We use AspectJ introduction mechanism to do this. Thus we enlighten purposes of locality and reusability shared by traits and structural AOP.

Mots clés: traits; aspects; reusability; composition; Java; AspectJ

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

Simon Denier. Traits Programming with AspectJ. Revue des Sciences et Technologies de l'Information - Série L'Objet : logiciel, bases de données, réseaux, 2005, 11 (3), pp.69-86. ⟨inria-00458197⟩