Practical Benefits of Aspect-Oriented Programming Paradigm in Discrete Event Simulation

Table 1

Comparison between AOP approaches.

	Xerox PARC AOP	SOP	AP	CF
Atomic unit	Aspect	Subject	Propagation pattern	Filter
Coexisting methodology	Object-oriented/components/mutiagents	Object-oriented	Object-oriented	Object-oriented
Composition mechanism	Weaving mechanism	Composition rules	Weaving mechanism	Superimposition mechanism
The mechanism used to determine crosscutting concerns injection places	Pointcuts specification	Labels specification	Traversal strategies specifications	Matching part of filters
The places of the crosscutting concerns injection	Join points	Subject parts	Traversal object model	The implementation part of the CF object after messages intercepting
Implementation languages	AspectJ	IBM VisualAge C++	DemeterJ	ComposeJ
Composition time	Compile time, load time, or run time	During the compilation	Compile time or run time	Compile time or run time