An Aspect Oriented Programming Framework to Support Transparent Runtime Monitoring of Applications

Abstract

Monitoring the runtime state and behavior of applications is very important to evaluate the performance of these applications and to inspect their behavior. In case of legacy applications that have been developed without monitoring capabilities, there is a real challenge to accomplish runtime state monitoring. This research redefines runtime monitoring concept, and then presents an Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) framework to equip applications with the capabilities to monitor their runtime state transparently. The framework, called RM Framework, supports three monitoring modes; Invasive-mode, Controlled-mode/(Functionality and Attribute), and Controlledmode/Selective. The framework is applied on a Java application as a case study. The results show smooth integration between application and runtime monitoring capabilities without affecting the target application consistency.

A Modular Aspect-Oriented Programming Approach of Join Point Interfaces

“…Different works about AOP applications and extensions already exist such us [12] and [13] which define formal rules to specify AOP solutions and [14] that uses an AOP framework to monitor the run-time state and behavior of software applications. The works of [9] [10] and [11] are bases and programming background of the JPI framework for building AOP solutions.…”