Comprehensive Aspectual UML Approach to Support AspectJ

Table 8

Representation of an Aspect in the Aspectual Sequence Diagram.

Notation drawing view	Description
	This Aspectual reference notation is used when a few message communications represent a pointcut.
&&	The “AND” notation is used to join two pointcut forms.
∥	The “OR” notation is used to join two pointcut forms.
!	The “NOT” notation is used to join two pointcut forms.
<<Join point Type>> Name	The join point stereotype is used to represent a message that is considered to be a join point and it denotes its type and name.
	This notation indicates the place where the “Before,” “After,” or “Around” advice is to be injected/executed.
	The Aspectual reference notation is used to indicate that the execution of a few messages is encapsulated in one Aspect ref.; The “Name/:” notation is used to indicate the name of the Aspectual reference notation if needed.