Most applications have a number of cross-cutting concerns, such as logging, exception handling, transaction handling and security. These items do not deal with the core business logic of an ...

Aspect-oriented programming has the potential to help every developer write higher-quality code in less time. Here's how to declaratively apply custom methods implementing common functionality to your ...

Modularization makes programming possible. Throughout the history of computing, a parade of organizational devices—the high-level language, the subroutine, the object—has allowed us to write ...

In Part 1 of this three-part series on aspect-oriented programming (AOP), I introduced AOP concepts and briefly gave AOP implementation examples. Continuing that trend in this article, I present a ...

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Could the adoption of aspect-oriented design practices lead us to better designs more quickly? Initial forays with these techniques in verification were not completely successful. In 1992, had the ...