Tutorial on Aspect-Oriented Programming for Database Systems (18 March 2003)

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Aspect-Oriented Programming for Database Systems
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DATE: March 18, 2003 (Afternoon, half day)

VENUE: 2nd International Conference on 
       Aspect-Oriented Software Development
       Boston, MA

PRESENTER: Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK

LEVEL: Intermediate

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.
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