Problems in Aspect Oriented Design: Facts and Thoughts

The classic challenge in writing object-oriented programs (OOP) is finding the right decomposition into classes and objects. This problem arises whenever programmers need to deal with crosscutting concerns. Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) is a well known methodology to overcome this issue by modularizing crosscutting concerns using aspects. Programmers are slowly realizing the importance of AOP since it creates cleaner code. But AOP breaks encapsulation in joint points and modifies flow control, making the source code hard to understand.AOP is not very well tested and documented and there is a lack of specific development tools. That’s why it is mainly used only for maintaining the system, rather than being a good choice for developing the initial version of the system. The main goal of this paper is to increase the acceptability of AOP by offering some tips against its drawbacks.