[aosd-discuss] Basic Questions

[Lee Carver (me)]

I used AOP (via Hyper/J) to decompose the Unix sort program into functional
components.  This allowed me to isolate each of the features as separate
options that could be activated individually.  In order to achieve clean
separation of components, I isolated approximately 100 features/concerns
(functional aspects?).

_I_ felt is was a great success, and regularly wish that I could employ
these techniques in day-to-day software development.

> From: SainTiss [mailto:saintiss at arklinux.org] 
> Subject: [aosd-discuss] Basic Questions
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> 
> Is AOP mainly focused on non-functional aspects (e.g. security,
persistence, 
> logging, ...) or also on the decomposition of a software system into 
> functional subsystems and treating them as aspects?
> 
> If so, is any research being done to bring the aspect-orientation to the 
> modeling level, e.g. in the spirit of MDA?