Concern Manipulation Environment (CME):
A Flexible, Extensible, Interoperable Environment for AOSD

The Concern Manipulation Environment (CME) supports aspect-oriented software developers (end users), tool providers, and researchers. It will offer end users a suite of tools for use in creating, manipulating, and evolving aspect-oriented software, across the full software lifecycle. For AOSD tool providers and researchers, it supplies a flexible, open set of components and frameworks on which to build a wide range of tools and paradigms that support aspect-oriented software development, and to do so much more easily than is possible at present. Moreover, the CME provides a common platform in which different AOSD tools can interoperate and integrate, ultimately providing end-users with a rich environment in which to perform aspect-oriented software engineering, and providing other tool builders and researchers with more powerful building blocks from which to create new tools and paradigms.

The CME has been submitted for approval as an Eclipse open source project*. Check back for more information.

If you are new to the CME, we recommend starting with this brief overview.

*Disclaimer: All information being released represents IBM's current intent, is subject to change or withdrawal, and represents only goals and objectives.