Paper Info
Title
Implementing design patterns as parametric aspects using ParaAJ: The case of the singleton, observer, and decorator design patterns
Abstract
Implementation of a design pattern can take many forms according to the programming language being used. Most of the literature presents design patterns in their conventional object-oriented implementations. Several other studies show the implementation in aspect-oriented languages such as AspectJ, EOS, and Caesar. In this work, we compare the implementation of three design patterns: singleton, observer, and decorator design patterns in these languages and also discuss the possibility of implementing them in ParaAJ: an extension to the AspectJ language that implements the idea of parametric aspects. We found that ParaAJ helps in making the implementation of the singleton and observer patterns reusable but it fails to help in the decorator case. The problem with the decorator pattern exists because of the current translation mechanism of ParaAJ׳s aspects to normal AspectJ׳s aspects. This opens the door for further work in ParaAJ to better support the idea of parametric aspects.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.cl.2015.11.002
Computer Languages, Systems & Structures
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Design patterns,Reusability,Parametric aspects,ParaAJ
Journal
45
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
C
1477-8424
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
khalid aljasser101.01