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NEW: The Composition Filters model now supports
crosscutting across multiple components/objects.
Our
recent paper can be found here in pdf format (431 KB)
Composition Filters has been developed by the TRESE group, at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Twente, The Netherlands.
The Composition Filters model provides a set of filters and it has four important characteristics:
 | Modular extension: Each filter enhances a class abstraction (expressed
for example in Java) in a modular way. A modular extension means that a filter
can be attached to a class without necessarily modifying the definition of that class. |
| Orthogonal extension: Orthogonal extension means that each filter extension to a
class is independent from other filter extensions. This allows easy composition of
multiple filters. |
| Open-ended: New filters may be introduced if necessary. |
| Aspect-oriented: Each filter represents an aspect (concern). Filters are
predefined and have a well-defined semantics. |
| Declarative: A filter specification describes what it means but not how it is
implemented. |
We advise you to first read the paper Solving the Modeling Problems of Object-Oriented Languages by Composing Multiple Aspects Using Composition Filters, since this paper introduces a set of problems and possible solutions to these problems using the composition-filters approach.
Information about the history of Composition Filters can be found here.
Our
publications on Composition Filters can be found here.
Our advanced separation of concerns homepage can be found here.
The composition filters implementation homepage can be found here.
Clicking on one of the topics directly shows you the abstract of a paper.
Various Aspects
| Object Synchronization papers: (1), (2) and (3) |
| Distributed synchronization |
| Composing synchronization and realtime |
| Coordination |
| Client-server (middleware) computing |
| Real-time |
| Multiple views, dynamic inheritance and queries |
General papers on composition-filters
| The composition-filters model |
| Defining composition-filters abstractions using a set of basic building blocks |
Aspect languages
| The Sina language and manual |
| Extending C++ with composition filters |
| Extending CORBA with composition-filters |
Problems and solutions
| Composition issues |
| Application categories and problems |
| Problems related to object-oriented languages (C++) |
| Problems related to object-oriented systems (CORBA) |
This page was last modified by Mehmet Aksit on May 5, 2001.
