In component-based distributed systems, the use of object-oriented programming languages is very common to define, through frameworks, programming interfaces for building and using components. However, most programming models that follow this approach, use the own object-oriented language concepts, such as classes and interfaces, to define a programming interface that follows a component-oriented paradigm. As a consequence, the source code mixes component functionality aspects with the programming model specific implementation mechanisms, what prevents the reuse of this component in other frameworks, and moreover, includes an extra complexity in the source code. Recently, a tendency to the addition of meta-data to the component implementation has been observed, by the use of specific markings on the source code. These meta-data provide the necessary information for tools, based on code generation or based on reflection mechanisms, to perform the integration of the component implementation with the component model’s infrastructure support. Some authors call this technique as Attribute-Oriented Programming. Languages as Java and C# already provide native support to this technique through Annotations. The goal of this dissertation is investigate the adoption of the attribute-oriented programming technique with object-oriented languages to build components based applications. As part of the research, we developed a new programming mechanism based on attributes to the Java version of the middleware SCS.