Comprehensive Aspectual UML Approach to Support AspectJ

Table 2

Language specification criterion in the existing approaches.

(a)

Approach	Language specification
	UMLV	EM		LP	PD	DT		MP	T	A
		Metamodel	UML profile			Behavioural	Structural
[17]	1.x	Y	N	G	Y	SD	CD/UPD	N	Y	P
[27]	2.0	N	N	G	N	N	CD	N	N	N
[22]	1.x	N	N	G	N	N	COD/CD	Y	Y	Y
[24]	1.1	Y	N	G	N	N	CD	T	T	Y
[26]	2.0	Y	N	G	Y	UC/SD/COMMD	CD/COD	N	Y	Y
[32]	2	N	Y	G	N	N	UPD	N	N	N
[35]	2.0	N	Y	G	N	SD	N	N	N	N
[34]	1.x	Y	Y	S	Y	N	CD	N	N	N
[25]	2.0	Y	N	G	N	N	CD/PD	N	N	N
[29]	1.x	Y	N	S	Y	N	CD/CLD	N	P	P
[30]	2.0	N	Y	G	N	SD/STD	CD/DD	N	Y	A
[31]	1.x	N	Y	G	N	STD	CD	P	P	N
[28]	2.2	Y	N	G	N	N	CD/PD	N	Y	Y
[33]	2.3	Y	N	S	Y	SD	CD	N	Y	Y

(b)

Coding index
UML version	UMLV	No	N	Partial traceability	PT
Extension mechanism	EM	Class Diagram	CD	State Diagram	STD
Language purpose	LP	Package Diagram	UPD	Yes	Y
Platform dependency	PD	Partial support	P	Adaptability	A
Diagram type	DT	Component Diagram	COD	Sequence Diagram	SD
Modelling process	MP	Use Case	UC	Specific/general	S/G
Traceability	T	Communication Diagram	COMMD	Collaboration Diagram	CLLD