Implementing an openMP-like standard with AspectJ

This paper presents an aspect-oriented library, coded in AspectJ, that aims to mimic the OpenMP standard for multicore program- ming in Java. Building the library on top of AspectJ intrinsically supports the sequential semantics of OpenMP. The library enables the use of parallelism related constructors in object-oriented sys- tems due to better compatibility with inheritance, making it more suitable to introduce parallelism into object-oriented frameworks. However, it requires more program refactoring than OpenMP di- rectives.This work is funded by ERDF - European Regional Development Fund through the COMPETE Programme (operational programme for competitiveness) and by National Funds through the FCT Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) within project FCOMP-01-0124FEDER-010152 and FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-011413