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T8: Aspect-Oriented Programming for Database
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Presenters:
- Awais
Rashid, Lancaster University
Date: Tuesday,
March 18, afternoon (half day)
Level:
Intermediate
Attendees should have basic knowledge of
database management systems. Basic knowledge of AOP is
beneficial but not required.
Abstract:
Database systems are central to the day-to-day
functioning of most businesses, but are notoriously costly to
design and maintain. Like other software, database systems are
subject to many crosscutting and overlapping concerns at both
the design and implementation levels. Aspect-oriented
programming (AOP) aims at easing software development by
providing abstractions that serve to localize crosscutting
concerns, e.g., code that cannot be encapsulated within one
class but is tangled over many classes.
This tutorial
will describe how AOP can be applied to address crosscutting
concerns in database systems in order to make them more
customizable, evolvable, and maintainable. The aims of the
tutorial are fourfold. First, attendees will be introduced to
the basic concepts of aspect-oriented programming. Second, the
tutorial will highlight crosscutting concerns in database
systems at both the DBMS and database levels. Third, the
tutorial will describe the use of AOP concepts to achieve
cost-effective customization and reduced maintenance overheads
at the DBMS and database levels. Finally, new requirements
imposed on database systems in terms of aspect storage and
integration with aspect-oriented programs will be discussed.
Solutions to address these emerging requirements will be
presented.
Biographies:
Dr. Awais Rashid
is a lecturer at Computing Department, Lancaster University,
UK where he teaches database technologies. His principal
research interests are in aspect-oriented software development
and object-oriented databases. He leads the Aspect-Oriented
Databases initiative at Lancaster which introduces the
principles of aspect-oriented development into database
systems. Previously Awais has worked as a postgraduate
researcher at Lancaster on the ESPRIT DEADA project concerned
with the production of a development environment for DBS
applications based on the document-centered approach and OO
paradigm. He has also worked at Xerox Research Centre Europe,
Cambridge Laboratory and as a visiting researcher at
University of Tuebingen, Germany and New University of Lisbon,
Portugal.
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