Re: [abc] AOSD paper

See Marc Lantot's message of Sept 14 if you haven't gotten your
sable password yet.

As said, I'm concentrating on course materials for most of this
week, but I'll work intensively on the paper from next weekend.
Here are a few issues I think need to be addressed (I haven't
looked at the draft yet, so they may be there already):

Related work:
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A very important issue is to make a fair comparison with the
extensibility of ajc. To do that, we need a detailed discussion
of the "throw pointcut" example that you can find in their
developers documentation. It is very similar to the "cast pointcut".
The discussion should therefore follow the way we have presented
that.

We should discuss

http://www.st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/database/publications/data/PQL.pdf?id=100

and explain why our approach is better. Follow references from
that paper to see whether we're missing anything else.

Apart from nebulous reasons like "more disciplined than logic
meta prog and josh", we also ought to stress the importance
of the analysis framework for future extensions. Perhaps Julian
can already say something about dflow?

-O

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Prof. Laurie HENDREN wrote:

> Hi abc'ers.
>
> This week we must do some serious work on the AOSD paper. Ganesh
> has started it off, but we still have some content to add, and some
> polishing to do. We need to submit the abstract on the 23rd and the
> full paper on the 30th.
>
> What I suggest is that Julian and Pavel (eager beavers who are currently
> working as I write this) take a look over the paper, and make some
> suggestions about what to do next. I would also like to build up a
> point form list of points to be made in the intro. What is the paper
> about, why is it important, what are the contributions of the paper,
> and what is our happy story.
>
> I include below the original instructions about subversion. If you
> haven't gotten a password, then I don't think you can commit to it,
> but I think that can be arranged. Until then Ganesh, Ondrej and I
> can commit, so you can send us files to stick back into the
> repository.
>
> Cheers, Laurie
>
>
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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:08:45 -0400
> From: Ondrej Lhotak <olhotak@sable.mcgill.ca>
> Reply-To: abc@comlab.ox.ac.uk
> To: ABC mailing list <abc@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
> Subject: [abc] Subversion repository for papers
>
> Hello abc people...
>
> I've set up directories in the Subversion repository for work on the
> abc papers. For each paper, I've put in the appropriate template and a
> makefile that makes an empty paper and tech report. All we have to do
> now is write the text! :)
>
> To get a working copy, use the command:
> svn checkout URL
> where URL is one of:
> https://svn.sable.mcgill.ca/sable/papers/aosd05abc/
> https://svn.sable.mcgill.ca/sable/papers/cc05abc/
> https://svn.sable.mcgill.ca/sable/papers/pldi05abc/
>
> For now, you will not be able to check in your changes, but you can
> already start making them. Marc will provide you with write passwords
> for checking in changes very soon.
>
> If you're unfamiliar with Subversion, it's very similar to CVS. Common
> commands are:
> svn help
> svn up - update working copy with new changes from repository
> svn add - add file(s) to the set that will go in the repository
> svn stat - find out what you've changed and will submit
> svn commit - submit changes to repository
> svn diff - diff local copy of file(s) against repository copy
> svn revert - undo all local changes to file(s)
>
> The Subversion manual is available at:
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/
>
> Also potentially useful is "The Top Ten Subversion Tips for CVS Users":
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/08/19/subversiontips.html
>
> Please let me know if you have any problems.
>
> Ondrej
>
>
>
Received on Mon Sep 20 10:41:47 2004