Welcome to
Aspect Research Associates

Aspect Research Associates is a software-development consulting, training, and contracting firm based in Chicago. We serve clients around the world. Our expertise includes:

• Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) and AspectJ
• Ruby, Ruby on Rails and other dynamic languages
• Enterprise Java, especially the Spring Framework
• Agile software development practices

Aspect Programming is our advocacy site for all things AOSD, where you will find introductory material, white papers, and presentations on AOSD. We are also the developers of Aquarium, an open-source Aspect-Oriented Programming toolkit for Ruby, and Contract4J, an open-source AspectJ tool that supports Design by Contract in Java and AspectJ.

For more information about our services, please contact us.