Tecniche Speciali di Programmazione

TSP will not be delivered in the 2024-25. Those who intend to take it will have until September 2024 session. TSP will be delivered again in 2025-26.

Tuesday January 9th, we will have the last hands-on session, it will be in classroom Ω.

Tuesday January 16th, there will be the second midterm. Remember to enroll to the midterm via SIFA.

On January we will speed up the pace of the course to finish it by the 16th. So I scheduled two extra lectures on Monday 8 and 15 both at 1pm in the same room we normally use (the room on the 5th floor).

Tuesday December 5th, there will be the first midterm. Remember to enroll to the midterm via SIFA.

Tuesday November 28th, we will have the second hands-on session, it will be in classroom Ω.

Tuesday November 7th, we will have the first hands-on session, it will be in classroom Ω.

There will be no class on Tuesday, October 24.

Lessons will start on Tuesday, September 26th at 9:30am in the classroom at the 5th floor in Via Celoria 18. Lessons will always start at 9:30am.

The office hours for the students are: Mondays from 8:30 to 10:30 in my office (Via Celoria 18, room 5009). Or on appointment on Discord (preferred way).

Since January the office hours will be on appointment and on discord.

Midterms

Remember to enroll to the midterm through SIFA/UNIMIA.

Exams

Note. to access both the midterm and the exam you have to be enrolled to them through the SIFA/UNIMIA.

Note. the exam sessions will be defined time after time in agreement with the professor and not more than 5 a year.

Slides

• Computational Reflection (PDF Lecture 01).
• Meta-Object Protocol and Separation of Concerns (PDF Lecture 02).
• Java Reflection (PDF Lecture 03).
• Call Stack Introspection (PDF Lecture 04).
• Java Annotations (PDF Lecture 05).
• Dynamic Proxy (PDF Lecture 06).
• Class Loading (PDF Lecture 07).
• Reflection vs Modules and Handles (PDF Lecture 08).
• OpenJava (PDF Lecture 09).
• Javassist (PDF Lecture 10).
• Bytecode Engineering (PDF Lecture 11).
• BCEL (PDF Lecture 12).
• Aspect Oriented Programming (PDF Lecture 13).
• AspectJ (Part 1) (PDF Lecture 14).
• AspectJ (Part 2) (PDF Lecture 15).
• AspectJ (Part 3) (PDF Lecture 16).
• AOP and Refactoring (PDF Lecture 17).

Books.

• Ira R. Forman and Nate B. Forman. Java Reflection in Action. Manning Publications. 2004.
• Ramnivas Laddad. AspectJ in Action: Pratical Aspect-Oriented Programming. Manning Publications Company. 2003.

The exam is written (at the computer). Each session proposes two exercises:

• the exercises are marked from 0 to 15;
• one exercise is about reflection and the other one about aspect-oriented programming; and
• to pass the exam you need a grade of at least nine for every exercise, i.e., the exam is not passed when you have, for example, 15 in the first exercise and 3 in the second one.

Each exercise can be substituted by a midterm exam. The midterms are two, 1 for every course's part, and if passed (with a grade of 9 or more) they hold for the whole academic year. The midterms are independent of each other, so if you fail one of them you can do the next one: the failed midterms can be caught up in the exam sessions. You are STRONGLY encouraged to follow and prepare the midterms.

The final mark corresponds to the sum of the marks each exercise. This when both exercises are passed.

Exercises to do in the hands-on lessons (room Ω). Note this basically helps in preparing the midterms/exams.

• Hands-on lesson on Reflection: lab01 vlab01
• Hands-on lesson on Byte Code Engineering: lab02
• Hands-on lesson on Aspect-Oriented Programming: lab03 vlab03

Note, the solutions to the exercises I did in the recorded hands-on sessions are available in a SVN repository accessible at:

The credentials to access the repository are the same you use to access the password protected content on this page.