An Event-driven Approach for the Separation of Concerns

Hayim Makabee

2012

Abstract

This paper presents an event-driven approach for the separation of concerns in software systems. We introduce the EventJ framework that provides an event-driven extension to the Java programming language. The paper describes a general methodology that can be used to identify the cross-cutting concerns and separate them from the main functionality using events and event handlers. We discuss the pre-requisites to perform this change and illustrate it with a concrete example. Finally, we make a comparison between the event-driven approach and the aspect-oriented one, and conclude that the use of events to separate concerns has a positive effect on software quality attributes such as maintainability, extensibility and reusability.

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Makabee H. (2012). An Event-driven Approach for the Separation of Concerns . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-8565-13-6, pages 122-127. DOI: 10.5220/0003971801220127


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@conference{enase12,
author={Hayim Makabee},
title={An Event-driven Approach for the Separation of Concerns},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2012},
pages={122-127},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003971801220127},
isbn={978-989-8565-13-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - An Event-driven Approach for the Separation of Concerns
SN - 978-989-8565-13-6
AU - Makabee H.
PY - 2012
SP - 122
EP - 127
DO - 10.5220/0003971801220127