Publications and Documentation

To date, the focus of the AspectC project has been the development of a stable and robust AspectC compiler. We will stop coding and start writing, once this goal is achieved. Until then, please read our code. The below language specification may help in this endeavour. The start of the project can be roughly dated to April/May 2006 when coding started to become serious, with some initial can-this-actually-work kind of activities dating back to a course project in May 2005.

AspectC Literature

AspectC Language Specification

W. (Michael) Gong and H.-A. Jacobsen. AspectC Specification (v0.4). Working Technical Draft, Middleware Systems Research Group, January 2007. (Also included in the AspectC tar file.)
AspectC Specification (v0.3).
AspectC Specification (v0.2).
AspectC Specification (v0.1).

AspectC Publications

Michael Gong, Vinod Muthusamy, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. AspectC Tutorial. University of Toronto. September 2006
W. (Michael) Gong and H.-A. Jacobsen. CASCON 2006 Technology Showcase. Markahm, Ontario, October 2006. (poster , slides [ppt,pdf])

TinyC² Literature

We are currently not continuing this project.

TinyC: Towards building a dynamic weaving aspect language for C,

Background information

The AspectC project builds on our prior experience in developing the Aspect-oriented Middleware concept, refactoring various kinds of middleware systems, and building a large number of software development tools to ease and enable aspect identification, aspect refactoring verification, and aspect-oriented refactoring. Selected publications are summarized below.

Our related projects are

Modelware	Prism	PQL	CRAFT	ARV
			CRAFT	ARV

Our related publications are

Charles Zhang, Gilbert Gao and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. Generic Middleware Substrate through Modelware. In ACM/IFIP/USENIX 6th International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2005), Grenoble, France November 28th - December 2nd, 2005.
Charles Zhang, Gilbert Gao and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. Towards Just-in-time Middleware, In 4th International Conference on Aspect Oriented Systems and Design, Chicago, IL, March 2005.
I. Godil, H.-A. Jacobsen. Horizontal Decomposition of Prevayler. CASCON, Richmod Hill, p. 83 - 100. Ontario, October, 2005.
Charles Zhang and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. Resovling Feature Convolution in Middleware Systems. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, Vancouver, BC, Canada, September 2004.
Charles Zhang and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. Refactoring Middleware Systems: A Case Study. In International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA 2003), Catania, Sicily (Italy), 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag.
Charles Zhang and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. Refactoring Middleware with Aspects. In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 14(11):1058 - 1073, November 2003.paper 2.
Charles Zhang and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. Quantifying Aspects in Middleware Platforms. In 2nd International Conference on Aspect Oriented Systems and Design, pages 130 - 139, Boston, MA, March 2003.
Charles Zhang, Hans-Arno Jacobsen, TinyC: Towards building a dynamic weaving aspect language for C, In Foundations of Aspect Languages, co-located with 2nd International Conference on Aspect Oriented Systems and Design. (AOSD 2003)