This paper ascribes a formal semantics to advice weaving in AspectJ. Since the version 1.1, AspectJ language is developed
using bytecode weaving, which combines aspects and classes to produce “.class” files that run in a Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
In AspectJ, advice weaving is done statically by inserting the advice functionality in some regions of the code. These regions
are join points that are declared using pointcuts. In this paper, we focus only on static pointcuts, i.e., pointcuts that
correspond directly to locations in the bytecode. AspectJ dynamic pointcuts such as target, this, and cflow are not in the focus of this paper.
This research is the result of a fruitful collaboration between Concordia University, the Canadian Department of National
Defense and Bell Canada under an NSERC DND Research Partnership Program.