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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 ...

The purpose of this blog entry is to show an extremely simple of example of “logging” entry into and exit from methods using the Spring Framework and AspectJ. The example is so simple that I won’t ...

There’s a small but determined group in the coding community who are only half joking when they declare that real coders write their own device drivers because doing anything else is lazy, ...

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 ...

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 ...

To understand aspect-oriented programming (AOP), let’s first take a look at two models of labor union organization in the U.S. The old American Federation of Labor organized workers vertically, ...