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Modularizing communication middleware concerns using aspects

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Software engineers often rely on communication middleware platforms to design and implement distributed systems. However, middleware functionality is usually invasive, pervasive and tangled with business-specific concerns. In this paper, we describe an aspect-oriented distributed programming system that encapsulates middleware services provided by Java RMI and Java IDL. The proposed system, called DAJ, handles the basic service provided by such object-oriented middleware platforms, i.e., synchronous remote calls using call by-serialization and call by-remote-reference semantics. The paper documents our experience in using DAJ to modularize middleware concerns from three legacy distributed systems.

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Maffort, C.A., Valente, M.T.d.O. Modularizing communication middleware concerns using aspects. J Braz Comp Soc 13, 81–94 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03194258

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