[Repast-developer] aspect oriented programming

[Nick C. <vze...@ve...>]

Hi,

Tom told me ages ago that I should take a look at some aspect oriented
programming material and I finally did. I've been reading the docs that
come with aspectj (http://www.aspectj.org). It looks like AspectJ's
"introduction" might be a way to add some the functionality we are
looking for, particularly with respect to spaces. 

What I'm thinking here is that we want agents to know about their spaces
and act within them without the modeler doing so explicitly. The point
being that agent mobility and spatial relationships can be seen as a
kind of role (thanks David!) that cuts across agent hierarchies. The
hierarchy expresses some model specific behavior or at least the
behavior that is the point of the model. Mobility and spatial
relationship are a means to achieving this behavior. Gulya has written
about this previously, better than I have here so see the archives for
more. 

So, does any one have any experience with aspectj or aspect oriented
programming? Is this a crazy idea? It does make compilation more
complicated by we can easily solve this with a batch or shell file for
compilation.

Comments?

Nick

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Nick Collier 
Social Science Research Computing
University of Chicago 
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