Aspect of Life-Cycle Control in a C++ Framework

This paper presents some of the experiences made with AOP. In an object oriented C++ framework, aspects have been identified which now have been separated from the components of the framework. In this paper, the focus is on life-cycle control aspects when applying the Command Processor pattern. Because no weaver technology was available, preprocessor macros were used. They simulate both operation and statement-level join points. Making the aspects of the code explicit yielded positive results.