Here’s an example of how aspect-oriented programming might be used in a middleware framework: Imagine that in our framework, a client accesses services via proxies. The services might be in another VM ...

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 ...

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 ...

Big Blue plans to bring aspect orientation, a technique that has been the subject of theoretical work for years, to commercial products this year and next. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering ...

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, ...

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 ...

IBM plans to bring a software development technique that has been the subject of theoretical work for years to commercial products this year and next. Daniel Sabbah, IBM's vice president of software ...