Bockisch C.: The art of the meta-aspect protocol

Alternative semantics for aspect-oriented abstractions can be defined by language designers using extensible aspect compiler frameworks. However, application developers are prevented from tailoring the language semantics in an appli-cation-specific manner. To address this problem, we pro-pose an architecture for aspect-oriented languages with an explicit meta-interface to language semantics. We demon-strate the benefits of such an architecture by presenting sev-eral scenarios in which aspect-oriented programs use the meta-interface of the language to tailor its semantics to a particular application execution context