Aspect-Oriented Development of PHP-Based Web Applications

Abstract

Web applications, which are sometimes developed incrementally and iteratively, may result in program codes that are poorly organized. The notion of aspect can theoretically be introduced for better modularization, but trials occasionally fail because homogeneous aspects alone are not adequate. The approach taken here is to introduce feature analysis and to radically use heterogeneous aspects to implement identified application features. This paper discusses our demonstration of the idea with an example case where Web applications were developed by using AOWP, which is a new AOP framework for PHP programs.