Hi Crista:

Doug and David suggested the following student project:
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter/course/f98/projects/AspectJ/translators.txt

Do you have a grammar for AspectJ?

-- Karl
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AOP projects:

Aspect-Oriented Programming is an approach to programming
that has its roots in Open Implementation, Adaptive Programming
and Cristina Lopes PhD thesis (Northeastern University supported
by Xerox PARC).

Links about AOP:

ftp://ftp.ccs.neu.edu/pub/people/lieber/theses/lopes/

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/lieber/AOP.html

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/lieber/connection-to-aop.html

Both the Xerox PARC team lead by Gregor Kiczales and the
Northeastern team have developed a generic aspect weaving language.
Think of those languages as assembly languages for aspect-oriented
programming.
The Northeastern language is called ADJ
(Aspect language of Demeter/Java) and the Xerox PARC
language is called AspectJ. 
We call it ADJ because ADJ is an integral
part of Demeter/Java to deal with aspects.
ADJ is older than AspectJ 
and was used at Northeastern to implement both COOL and RIDL as well
as Demeter/Java itself.
The purpose of this project is to compare the two languages by translating
from one language to the other.

We focus only on the part of AspectJ that does not deal with
instantiating aspects. This part allows for static modifications
of classes. And only this part is also covered by ADJ.
In this sense AspectJ is more powerful than ADJ because it supports
run-time weaving. For the static modifications, ADJ has probably
more features than AspectJ.

Information about ADJ is at:
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/jayantha/usermanual/node6.html

Information on AspectJ is available at:
http://www.parc.xerox.com/spl/projects/aop/

A copy of the OOPSLA '98 tutorial is at:
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter/tutorials/AspectJ/oopsla98


+ Translating from AspectJ into ADJ.

Tasks:
1. Write a class dictionary for AspectJ

2. For ADJ use:
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter/DemeterJava/use/latest-demjava/weave/
file: weaver.cd

3. Write a Demeter/Java program to translate the parts of AspectJ
that can be translated.

4. Test your translator and write a brief report about the differences
between AspectJ and ADJ.


+ Translating from ADJ to AspectJ 

similar to above.