Aspect-oriented programming allows an application server designer to provide these features without requiring service developers to extend abstract classes or implement interfaces.

Aspect-oriented programming is a new way of creating common or similar functionality needed by different parts of a program. Programmers describe needed behavior in modules called aspects and then ...

In this second article in his three-part series on aspect-oriented programming (AOP), Ramnivas Laddad presents an AspectJ implementation based on Java. He introduces concepts and constructs in ...