MEDIATOR: An AOP Tool to Support Conflicts Among Aspects

The issue of conflicts among aspects is not new. However, the handling of conflicts is still an open problem. First, the detection of conflicts is a manual task in most of the AOP tools. Second, in general the resolution of conflicts is enclosed to order-schemes. The handling of conflicts can be problematical if the programming tool does not supply suitable structures and specific mechanisms. MEDIATOR is an environment programming that extends Java language to support AOP, with specific and flexible mechanisms to manage conflicts among aspects. The detection of conflicts is an automatic process and the resolution of them is implemented by explicit and symbolic rules.