Model-Driven Development versus Aspect-Oriented Programming - A Case Study

Hohenstein U, Elsner C (2014)

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2014

Publisher: SciTePress

Edited Volumes: ICSOFT-PT 2014 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends

Pages Range: to appear

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies (ICSOFT 2014)

Event location: Vienna, Austria AT

Abstract

This case study compares two different technologies - model-driven development (MDD) and aspectoriented programming (AOP) - both trying to avoid redundant code, but with very different approaches. A real industrial software system, the OpenSOA platform, which had already applied a model-driven XML/XSL-T approach, is used as the basis for implementation and comparison. For evaluation purpose, we have re-implemented the XSL-T implemented logic with a corresponding AOP implementation in AspectJ. Taking into account several criteria, our case study indicates that the AOP implementation reveals its strengths in avoiding redundancy, better testability, and understandability. However, more advanced tooling could significantly improve the position of MDD for the latter. MDD is in turn the more flexible approach, allowing generation of arbitrary artefacts the design demands. As the main issue of the case study, to generate wrapper classes and boilerplate-code, is rather common, we believe that our results have potential to be transferred to other problem settings. Furthermore, we think that our evaluation criteria will help guiding others in making technology choices. We also give an outlook on how combinations of MDD and AOP may leverage the best of both worlds.

Authors with CRIS profile

Christoph Elsner Lehrstuhl für Informatik 4 (Verteilte Systeme und Betriebssysteme)

Involved external institutions

Siemens AG DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Hohenstein, U., & Elsner, C. (2014). Model-Driven Development versus Aspect-Oriented Programming - A Case Study. In Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies (ICSOFT 2014) (pp. to appear). Vienna, Austria, AT: SciTePress.

MLA:

Hohenstein, Uwe, and Christoph Elsner. "Model-Driven Development versus Aspect-Oriented Programming - A Case Study." Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends (ICSOFT-PT 2014), Vienna, Austria SciTePress, 2014. to appear.

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