Considerations on component visibility and code reusability in AspectJ

The AspectJ programming language supports the principle of modularity and abstraction by allowing explicit separation between aspects and system core concerns. However, using AspectJ does not necessarily imply loose coupling as aspect definitions may maintain explicit visibility over components. In this paper we look at the problem of the binding of aspect definitions to application code in AspectJ, and we propose a language framework that deploys reflection in order to decrease the level of coupling between them, thereby increasing the level of reusability of aspect definitions.