True and Transparent Distributed Composition of Aspect-Components

Next-generation middleware must support complex compositions that involve dependencies between multiple components residing in different contexts and locations in the network. In this paper we present DyMAC, an aspect-oriented middleware platform that offers an aspect-component model to support such complex distributed compositions by means of advanced remote pointcuts, transparent remote advice and distributed instantiation scopes for aspects. The remote pointcuts can evaluate on calls and executions of remote method invocations and can also evaluate on the distributed context. The remote advice can be executed transparently in a remote environment while still respecting the full semantics of existing types of advice, including around advice. The component model unifies aspects and components into one entity with one interaction standard. To our knowledge, DyMAC middleware is the first AO middleware platform that distributes the concepts of aspect-oriented composition completely and transparently.

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