Big Blue plans to bring aspect orientation, a technique that has been the subject of theoretical work for years, to commercial products this year and next. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering ...

Early aspects focus on the problem domain, representing the goals and constraints of users, customers and other constituencies affected by a software intensive system. However, analysis of early ...

Modularization makes programming possible. Throughout the history of computing, a parade of organizational devices—the high-level language, the subroutine, the object—has allowed us to write ...

IBM plans to bring a software development technique that has been the subject of theoretical work for years to commercial products this year and next. Daniel Sabbah, IBM's vice president of software ...