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Reusable enterprise metadata with pattern-based structural expressions

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Myoungkyu SongAuthors Info & Claims

AOSD '10: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development

Pages 25 - 36

https://doi.org/10.1145/1739230.1739234

Published: 15 March 2010 Publication History

Abstract

An essential part of modern enterprise software development is metadata. Mainstream metadata formats, including XML deployment descriptors and Java 5 annotations, suffer from a number of limitations that complicate the development and maintenance of enterprise applications. Their key problem is that they make it impossible to reuse metadata specifications not only across different applications but even across smaller program constructs such as classes or methods.

To provide better enterprise metadata, we present pattern-based structural expressions (PBSE), a novel metadata representation that offers conciseness and maintainability advantages and is reusable. To apply PBSE to enterprise applications, we translate PBSE specifications to Java annotations, with annotating classes automatically as an intermediate build step. We demonstrate the advantages of the new metadata format by assessing its conciseness and reusability, as compared to XML and annotations, in the task of expressing metadata of J2EE reference applications and a mid-size, commercial, enterprise application.

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Reusable enterprise metadata with pattern-based structural expressions
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Reusability
  2. Software notations and tools

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AOSD '10: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development

March 2010

242 pages

ISBN:9781605589589

DOI:10.1145/1739230

General Chair:
Jean-Marc Jezequel
Université of Rennes 1 and INRIA, France
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Mario Sudholt
Ecole des mines and INRIA, France

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