KALA

Abstract

Transaction management is a known cross-cutting concern. Previous research has been conducted to express this concern as an aspect. However, this work uses general-purpose aspect languages which lack a formal foundation and are unable to express advanced models for transaction management. In contrast, we designed a domain-specific aspect language for advanced transaction management, called KALA, that is based on a formalism for advanced transactions. As a result, KALA covers the field of advanced transaction management while obtaining a much higher level of abstraction than is achieved with general-purpose aspect languages. In this paper we detail the creation process of KALA.