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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With so many different aspects to the framework, learning Spring can be intimidating. At its core, Spring is an Inversion of Control (IoC) and Dependency Injection (DI) container. It's also a powerful ...

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, ...