Attribute-oriented programming

<h2 id="attribute-oriented-programming-in-various-languages">Attribute-oriented programming in various languages</h2>
<h3>Java</h3>
<p>With the inclusion of Metadata Facility for Java (JSR-175)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> into the <a href="/facts/Java_Platform%2c_Standard_Edition/1HMPhdsv">J2SE</a> 5.0 release it is possible to utilize attribute-oriented programming right out of the box.
<a href="/facts/XDoclet/Wn3VUunw">XDoclet</a> library makes it possible to use attribute-oriented programming approach in earlier versions of Java.
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<h3>C#</h3>
<p>The C# language has supported attributes from its very first release. These attributes was used to give run-time information and are not used by a preprocessor. Currently with source generators, you can use attributes to drive generation of additional code at compile-time.
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<h3>UML</h3>
<p>The <a href="/facts/Unified_Modeling_Language/3tlNS0tH">Unified Modeling Language</a> (UML) supports a kind of attribute called <a href="/facts/Stereotype_(UML)/bfsYGbvo">stereotypes</a>.
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<h3>Hack</h3>
<p>The <a href="/facts/Hack_(programming_language)/yIpr4zfv">Hack programming language</a> supports attributes. Attributes can be attached to various program entities, and information about those attributes can be retrieved at run-time via reflection.
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<h2 id="tools">Tools</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/apt/">Annotation Processing Tool (apt)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://spoon.gforge.inria.fr/">Spoon</a>, an Annotation-Driven Java Program Transformer</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080314051510/http://xdoclet.codehaus.org/">XDoclet</a>, a Javadoc-Driven Program Generator</li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050526230023/http://dssg.cs.umb.edu/resources/attribute-oriented-programming.html">"Attribute-Oriented Programming"</a>. <i>An Introduction to Attribute-Oriented Programming</i>. Archived from <a href="http://dssg.cs.umb.edu/resources/attribute-oriented-programming.html">the original</a> on May 26, 2005. Retrieved July 22, 2005.</li>
<li>Wada, Hiroshi; Suzuki, Junichi (2005). <a href="https://www.cs.umb.edu/~jxs/pub/models05.pdf">"Modeling Turnpike Frontend System: a Model-Driven Development Framework Leveraging UML Metamodeling and Attribute-Oriented Programming"</a> (PDF). In Proc. of the 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MoDELS/UML 2005). <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160303170619/http://www.cs.umb.edu/~jxs/pub/models05.pdf">Archived</a> (PDF) from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2006-03-21.</li>
<li>Rouvoy, Romain; Merle, Philippe (2006). <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061223004531/http://research.microsoft.com/~cszypers/events/WCOP2006/rouvoy-wcop-06.pdf">"Leveraging Component-Oriented Programming with Attribute-Oriented Programming"</a> (PDF). In Proc. of the 11th ECOOP International Workshop on Component-Oriented Programming (WCOP 2006). Archived from <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~cszypers/events/WCOP2006/rouvoy-wcop-06.pdf">the original</a> (PDF) on 2006-12-23.</li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li>Don Schwarz. <a href="http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/06/30/insidebox1.html">Peeking Inside the Box: Attribute-Oriented Programming with Java5</a></li>
<li>Sun <a href="https://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=175">JSR 175</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/excerpt/prog_csharp_ch18/index.html?page=1">Attributes and Reflection</a> - sample chapter from <a href="https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/programming-c/0596001177/">Programming C#</a> book</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060421202448/http://dssg.cs.umb.edu/projects/mturnpike.html">Modeling Turnpike Project</a></li>
<li><a href="http://fractal.objectweb.org/fraclet">Fraclet</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080920003854/http://fractal.objectweb.org/fraclet">Archived</a> 2008-09-20 at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a>: An annotation-based programming model for the <a href="http://fractal.objectweb.org">Fractal</a> component model</li>
<li><a href="https://archive.today/20130128014428/http://madebits.com/aep/index.php">Attribute Enabled Software Development</a> book</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"The Java Community Process(SM) Program - communityprocess - final". <a href="https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr175/index.html" target="_blank">https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr175/index.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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