A couple months ago I sat down at Barnes & Noble and read a book on Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP). I don’t know if the author didn’t do a good enough job of explaining it or not, but I just didn’t get it. Of course going from structual programming to Object Oriented programming is not an easy transition for some either. All these damn programming paradigms. Goes to show we haven’t reached perfection yet.

Back to the article though.

It’d be nice if the situation were different. Need logging? Just write a new module that logs all method execution. Need caching? Add a module. Need security? Add another module, all without modifying the core implementation, leaving it as clean as it was during the initial phase.

Sound too good to be true? Not so. Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) can make this desired story a reality.

Also I decided to help everyone out and find some books at Amazon on AOP:

• Aspect-Oriented Programming with AspectJ
• AspectJ in Action: Practical Aspect-Oriented Programming
• Eclipse AspectJ : Aspect-Oriented Programming with AspectJ and the Eclipse AspectJ Development Tools
• Aspect-oriented Software Development

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