Resumen
This article focuses on aspect oriented programming (AOP) with adaptive methods. According to the author, an operation in an object-oriented program often involves several different collaborating classes. This is done usually by either putting the whole operation into one method on one of the classes or dividing the operation into methods on each of the classes involved. The drawback of the former is that too much information about the structure of classes needs to be tangled into each such method, which makes it difficult to adapt to changes in the class structure. The latter, scatters the operation across multiple classes, making it difficult to adapt when the operation changes. To resolve this conflict, adaptive methods have been developed which encapsulate the behaviour of an operation into one place, avoiding thereby the scattering problem. Moreover, abstracting over the class structure also avoids the tangling problem as well. In adaptive methods, the behaviour is expressed as a high-level description of how to reach the participants of the computation.