jfabry / AspectMaps

AspectMaps is a software visualization tool built to aid the understanding of aspect-oriented software systems. It provides a scalable visualization of implicit invocation. AspectMaps visualizes selected join point shadows (a.k.a. shadow points): locations in the source code that at run-time produce a join point. AspectMaps visualizes the shadow points where an aspect will execute, and if multiple aspects will execute, the order in which they are specified to run. This results in a visualization that clearly shows how aspects cross-cut the base code, as well as how they interact at each join point. AspectMaps is a scalable visualization mainly due to its use of selective structural zooming. The structure of source code is shown at different levels of granularity, as specified by the user.