Author of AspectJ in Action, Principal at Interface21
Ramnivas Laddad is an Interface21 Principal. He has over a decade of experience in applying his enterprise Java and aspect-oriented programming (AOP) expertise to middleware, design automation, networking, web application, user interface, and security projects.Ramnivas is a well-known expert in enterprise Java, especially in the area of AOP. He is the author of AspectJ in Action, the best-selling book on AOP and AspectJ. His book is highly recommended by leading industry experts for its practical and innovative applications of AOP solving a wide range of real-world problems. Ramnivas is also one of the industry's leading conference speakers, who has given over one hundred talks at conferences such as JavaOne, No Fluff Just Stuff, JavaPolis, and EclipseCon. Ramnivas hosts the Aspectivity blog, where he shares his thoughts on AOP and related topics. He is an active member of the AspectJ community and has been involved with AOP since its early form.
Ramnivas role at Interface21 includes working with the Spring community and Interface21 clients to help them leverage the power of AOP. He is currently involved in interesting work combining ideas in domain-driven design with AOP and DI. He is also working on creating reusable aspects to simplify development of typical Spring-based projects. His work at Interface21 is expected to drive major new innovations atop the Spring 2.0 platform.
Ramnivas lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Presentations by Ramnivas Laddad
Simplifying Enterprise Applications with Spring, Part 2
This session (part 2 of 2) will cover advanced concepts in the Spring framework. While the core concepts in the first session will get you started with Spring, the advanced concepts in this session will help you be more effective at developing Spring-based applications.Architecture Enforcement with AOP
Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a proven paradigm for enforcing broad organizational policies. In this session, we will explore the definition and enforcement of software architecture policies to help keep a code base clean. We will examine several reusable examples you can apply within your own organization to catch architectural violations.Leveraging annotations with AOP
Specifying metadata using annotations has gained huge popularity since its introduction in Java 5. However, the story on consuming annotations isn't as clear. Reading and processing annotation is still a complex process often requiring you to understand byte-code manipulation tools and their low-level API. As a result, most developers shy away from using custom annotations, limiting their usages of annotations only those prescribed by frameworks. The result is missed opportunities for programming simplification. In this session, we explore how AOP can make it a simple task to consume annotation in a powerful manner.Enterprise Security with Spring
Spring Security (formerly known as 'Acegi') enables self-contained, consistent, and extensible solutions for securing your applications. Version 2.0 provides major enhancements including a domain-specific XML namespace, convention-based defaulting, and annotation support. This provides a significantly simpler experience for developers while still supporting the same degree of flexibility.AspectJ for Spring Developers
If you are keeping up-to-date with all the cool features in Spring 2.0, you have surely heard about much improved integration with AspectJ. AspectJ is for real. Come to this session to understand the core concepts of this wonderful technology and how to use it to create even simpler Spring-based applications.Simplifying Enterprise Applications with Spring, Part 1
Developing enterprise applications ain't easy. You not only have to worry about constantly evolving business logic, but also need to address infrastructure concerns ranging from transaction management and security to manageability and integration with diverse external applications. Spring, the most popular lightweight enterprise application framework, comes to the rescue by simplifying the common needs of enterprise applications. This session (part 1 of 2) presents the core concepts of the Spring Framework.Books by Ramnivas Laddad
by Ramnivas Laddad
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A software system is the realization of a set of concerns. One of the central premises of object-oriented programming is that each concern should be implemented as a separate module. However, there are certain system-wide concerns, such as logging, security, performance, and so forth, that often need to be addressed in many, if not all of the modules. Consequently, the code to handle these system-wide concerns may be mixed in with the core logic of a huge number of modules, resulting in lower productivity, poor quality, and systems that are hard to evolve. Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) overcomes these problems by modularizing the system-wide concerns.
AspectJ enables AOP programming in Java by adding a few new language constructs. By using Java as the base language and creating a final system that is compatible with Java byte code specification, AspectJ passes on all the benefits of Java. The use of Java as the base language also makes AspectJ a relatively easy language to learn.
The book is divided into three parts. The first part introduces AOP and AspectJ and will be helpful to developers wanting to learn or advance their knowledge of AspectJ. The second and third parts present examples of everyday situations in which you can use simple and easy AspectJ solutions to implement common system requirements such as logging, policy enforcement, resource pooling, business rules, thread-safety, authentication and authorization, as well as transaction management.
What's inside:
* In-depth coverage of AOP and AspectJ
* Design patterns and idioms
* Solutions to real-world problems
* Much reusable code content - Available At: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1930110936/wwwcomplet..
Aspectivity
Thoughts on apsect-oriented programming, AspectJ, Java, and programming in general
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
InfoQ.com has published my AOP myths and realities talk recorded at a No Fluff Just Stuff conference.
InfoQ.com founded by Floyd Marinescu and Alexandru Popescu (the 'mindstorm') is definitely becoming a great portal for enterprise developers. Besides great contents (increasing every day), InfoQ is also featuring a few innovative ideas ...
InfoQ.com founded by Floyd Marinescu and Alexandru Popescu (the 'mindstorm') is definitely becoming a great portal for enterprise developers. Besides great contents (increasing every day), InfoQ is also featuring a few innovative ideas ...
Thursday, August 3, 2006
AspectJ in Action has been translated into Korean. While the Korean translation seems to have happened back in late 2005, only now I could confirm it (thanks to my friend Henry Choi for ensuring that I didn?t get lost in translation).
Thursday, August 3, 2006
The Spring Experience 2006 program details are now available. Keith Donald and Jay Zimmerman have been working very hard to put together a great show resulting in a three-day conference packed with over 50 sessions covering a wide range of topics. It is not just learning either; there are a ...
Thursday, March 9, 2006
Graham Hamilton has blogged about "AOP: Madness and Sanity". The central theme of the blog seems to be based on a notion that any language that runs on the Java platform must follow the JLS and it is okay for a J2EE container, but not for aspects, to affect program ...
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
IBM developerWorks has published my AOP myths and realities article. In this article, I examine the following common myths around AOP and discuss their realities. Do you have or have you heard of other myths? Let me know. Perhaps I can address them in another article:
Update: There is a good ...
Update: There is a good ...
