Adopting Aspect-Oriented Software Development in Business Application Engineering

SAP is the world’s largest vendor of enterprise software. SAP Research is interested in understanding, evaluating, and applying aspect-oriented techniques in the context of large enterprise systems. This interest is also reected by our involvement several European and national research projects on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD). We report on existing aspect-oriented concepts at SAP and present a case study that illustrates several non-obvious crosscutting concerns in business software. We also discuss the benets and challenges that arise when applying AOSD to large scale industrial projects and present a road map to adopting AOSD at SAP for productive use. 1. MOTIVATION

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