Requirements for Applying Aspect-Oriented Techniques in Web Service Composition Languages

摘要

In current composition languages for web services, there is insufficient support to explicitly separate crosscutting concerns, which leads to compositions that are hard to maintain or evolve. A similar problem in object-oriented languages is being tackled by aspect-oriented programming, and some work has been started to apply these techniques to web service composition languages as well. We identified some problems with these approaches. This short paper lists these limitations and offers a number of requirements to apply aspect-oriented techniques to workflow languages.