A generic and reflective debugging architecture to support runtime visibility and traceability of aspects

摘要

In this paper we present a generic, mirror-based debugging architecture that supports runtime visibility and traceability of aspect oriented (AO) software systems. Runtime visibility supports inspection of an executing AO-system in terms of AO programming abstractions and code artifacts such as (dynamic) aspects, advices, pointcuts, aspect instances and advice applications. Runtime traceability supports inspection of the stack to identify advices that could have been executed, that are being executed, or that may be executed later. Additionally, traceability supports identification and inspection of the pointcut that causes a specific advice.