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An introduction to AOP

Sing Li (westmakaha@yahoo.com), Author, Wrox Press
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Sing Li is a consultant and freelance writer. He has contributed to Beginning JavaServer Pages , Professional Apache Tomcat 5 , Pro JSP - Third Edition , Early Adopter JXTA, Professional Jini, Beginning J2ME: From Novice to Professional, Third Edition , and numerous other books. He is also a regular contributor to technical magazines and an active evangelist of the VON and P2P evolutions. You can reach Sing at westmakaha@yahoo.com.

Summary:  Follow along with Sing Li as he guides you through the basic concepts of aspect-oriented programming (AOP). AOP tools give you a way to separate the code for essential crosscutting concerns, such as logging and security, from your Java™ programs' core application logic cleanly. AOP can make your code more readable, less error-prone, and easier to maintain.

Date:  30 Sep 2005
Level:  Intermediate
PDF:  A4 and Letter (177 KB | 25 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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About this tutorial

This tutorial introduces AOP and its basic concepts. AOP and its associated tools let you separate the code for essential crosscutting concerns, such as logging and security, from a program's core application logic. AOP improves code quality by making it more readable, less error-prone, and easier to design and maintain.

This tutorial introduces you to:

  • The reasons for AOP
  • The basic concepts of AOP
  • AOP tools and frameworks

Then, you'll apply AOP techniques to a real-world code example.

The author would like to thank Mik Kersten for his expert comments and valuable review of the early drafts of this tutorial.

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This tutorial is for Java developers who want to explore AOP. You need to be comfortable with object-oriented design and Java programming. Experience working with security and logging systems is helpful but not necessary.

To run this tutorial's sample code, you need the following:

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