The Aspect Oriented Markup Language and Its Support of Aspect Plugins

We describe the Aspect Markup Language (AML), an XML-based AOP language for programming aspects. AML separates the binding instructions, written in XML, from the executable aspect code, written in a regular programming language. This separation by itself has some advantages, namely for testing. But the main goal of AML is to provide a highly extensible AOP platform, with which programmers can easily define their own constructs using well-known plugin techniques. This novel feature enables the development of AOP toolkits that target domain-specific crosscutting concerns