A Slice of MDE with AOP: Transforming High-Level Business Rules to Aspects Export

@inbook{citeulike:1195243, abstract = {We propose an approach that combines MDE and AOSD to automatically translate high-level business rules to aspects and integrate them with existing object-oriented applications. The separation of rule-based knowledge from the core application as explicit business rules has been the focus of existing approaches. However, they fail at supporting rules that are both high-level, i.e. defined in domain terms, and operational, i.e. automatically executable from the core application. In this paper we propose high-level languages for expressing business rules at the domain level as well as their connections to the core application. We provide support for automatically translating high-level rules to object-oriented programs and their connections to aspects, since these crosscut the core application. Separation of concerns is preserved at the domain and implementation levels, facilitating traceability, reusability and adaptability. A prototype implementation and a discussion on trade-offs are presented.}, author = {Cibran, Mar\'{\i}a and D'hondt, Maja}, booktitle = {Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems}, citeulike-article-id = {1195243}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11880240_13}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/em70x55w7454742j}, day = {23}, doi = {10.1007/11880240_13}, isbn = {978-3-540-45772-5}, issn = {0302-9743}, journal = {Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems}, keywords = {ecds, rules}, month = {November}, pages = {170--184}, posted-at = {2009-08-30 16:23:19}, priority = {2}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, title = {A Slice of MDE with AOP: Transforming High-Level Business Rules to Aspects}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11880240_13}, volume = {4199}, year = {2006} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:1195243 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1195243 N2 - We propose an approach that combines MDE and AOSD to automatically translate high-level business rules to aspects and integrate them with existing object-oriented applications. The separation of rule-based knowledge from the core application as explicit business rules has been the focus of existing approaches. However, they fail at supporting rules that are both high-level, i.e. defined in domain terms, and operational, i.e. automatically executable from the core application. In this paper we propose high-level languages for expressing business rules at the domain level as well as their connections to the core application. We provide support for automatically translating high-level rules to object-oriented programs and their connections to aspects, since these crosscut the core application. Separation of concerns is preserved at the domain and implementation levels, facilitating traceability, reusability and adaptability. A prototype implementation and a discussion on trade-offs are presented. JF - Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems SE - Lecture Notes in Computer Science SN - 978-3-540-45772-5 EP - 184 TI - A Slice of MDE with AOP: Transforming High-Level Business Rules to Aspects VL - 4199 T2 - Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems SP - 170 KW - ecds KW - rules AU - Cibran, María AU - D’hondt, Maja PY - 2006/11/23/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11880240_13 ER -