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 ...

In software engineering, the programming paradigm of aspect-oriented programming (AOP), also called aspect-oriented software development (AOSD), attempts to aid programmers in the separation of ...

A programming language structure wherein the data and their associated processing ("methods") are defined as self-contained entities called "objects." Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm ...

Could the adoption of aspect-oriented design practices lead us to better designs more quickly? Initial forays with these techniques in verification were not completely successful. In 1992, had the ...

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, ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — If attendance at JavaOne sessions is any indication of what’s on the minds of developers, then aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a technology whose day is coming. At the show on ...