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The aim of the FuseJ research is to investigate whether a specialized aspect module is really required in order to achieve aspect-oriented programming. In our opinion, an aspect can just be considered as a regular component, with the exception that it requires a special kind of interaction mechanism with the base components of the system. Therefore, we propose to unify aspects and components by introducing a new aspect-oriented composition mechanism upon existing module constructs instead of introducing a separate aspect entity.

As a realization of this unified component-oriented architecture, the FuseJ language is proposed. By employing FuseJ, all concerns are implemented as regular Java Beans. FuseJ then provides a strong composition mechanism that is able to describe both aspect-oriented and component-based interactions. As such, new composition mechanisms are made as unobtrusive as possible, e.g. when representing a software element as a method, it is possible to compose this method with others as if it were an advice. This allows for postponing the choice for a specific composition mechanism and enables employing this new composition mechanism on existing software components.

A first prototype implementation of the FuseJ tools and architecture is now available. More information in the Download section.