Micky: Methods with implicit calls

Aspect-oriented languages such as AspectJ can be implemented by a preprocessor that converts aspects to classes, converts advice to methods, and inserts explicit method calls to the advice methods at the appropriate join points. The resulting code calls the advice methods in places where the programmer coded no explicit calls. We refer to such calls as implicit method calls. We can achieve capabilities similar to AspectJ but with a simpler language by focusing on the notion of implicit method calls. We propose Micky, an extension of Java that implements implicit method calls.