KALA: Kernel aspect language for advanced transactions

Fabry, J; Tanter É.; D'Hondt, T

Abstract

Transaction management is a known crosscutting concern. Previous research has been conducted to express this concern as an aspect. However, such work has used general-purpose aspect languages which lack a formal foundation, and most importantly are unable to express advanced models of transaction management. In this paper, we propose a domain-specific aspect language for advanced transaction management, called KALA, that overcomes these limitations. First, KALA is based on a recognized formalism for the domain of advanced transaction management, called ACTA. Second, as a consequence of being based on the ACTA formalism, KALA covers a wide variety of models for transaction management. Finally, being a domain-specific aspect language, KALA allows programmers to express their needs at a higher level of abstraction than what is achieved with general-purpose aspect languages. This paper reports on the design of KALA and its implementation over Java, based on the Reflex AOP kernel for domain-specific aspect languages. © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Título según WOS: KALA: Kernel aspect language for advanced transactions
Título según SCOPUS: KALA: Kernel aspect language for advanced transactions
Título de la Revista: SCIENCE OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
Volumen: 71
Número: 3
Editorial: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Fecha de publicación: 2008
Página de inicio: 165
Página final: 180
Idioma: English
URL: http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0167642307001992
DOI:

10.1016/j.scico.2007.10.004

Notas: ISI, SCOPUS