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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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