Name: Anonymous 2009-09-09 13:39
If you didn't already know, Aspect Oriented Programing is revolutionizing enterprise programming as we speak. The AOP paradigm revolves around four concepts: Point-Cuts, Advice, Concerns and Aspects. A concern is a situation when you have a function or series of functions being called for many different reasons throughout an application. A point-cut is a single location of a (concerned) function call. Advice is extra code that gets applied at a specific point cut after the class it is contained in gets modified. Advice is required when the needs of the updated class are no longer met by the old function. A point-cut and it's corresponding advice is known as an aspect. Aspects are organized within their own concerns in order to make cross-cutting functions simple and easy to update and modify as the classes that use them evolve over time.