Effective AOP

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) allows better application architectures by centralizing scattered and tangled code for prolems like security, error handling, testing, policy enforcement and feature variations across a product line. The recent releases of Spring 2.0 and AspectJ 5 illustrate the maturing options for Java projects.

This session looks at how you can improve your development process and technology with aspects. You will learn the concepts of aspect-orientation, how it applies to enterprise systems, how to design with aspects, the architectural options for working with aspects, and strategies for effective team adoption. In this talk, I illustrate the concepts with practical examples of using AspectJ and Spring AOP to handle metering, feature variations, security, error handling and testing. Both Spring and AspectJ are freely available and open source.

About Ron Bodkin

Ron Bodkin is the chief software architect of Quantcast, an open ratings service for Web sites. Ron is also the founder of New Aspects of Software, which provides consulting and training on aspect-oriented software development and effective architectures for Java. Ron is also the leader of the open source Glassbox application performance troubleshooting project.

Previously, Ron led the first implementation projects and training efforts for customers of the AspectJ group at Xerox PARC. Prior to that, Ron was a founder and the CTO of C-bridge, a consultancy that delivered enterprise applications using Java frameworks.

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