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COMMENTARY--There is a lot of talk and excitement about AOP (aspect oriented programming) in the field these days. Hard-core technologists intuitively understand the cutting-edge nature and potential ...

While aspect-oriented programming (AOP) offers a powerful means of modularizing programs, and a robust, feature-rich implementation for the Java platform is available in AspectJ, AOP is not yet in the ...

Most developers will acknowledge how implementing crosscutting concerns such as logging, auditing, security and transactionality can adversely affect business logic implementation. Such concerns “seem ...