Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP), something which you might be familiar with if you are a Spring/Hibernate lover. It is definitely something new to me.
I spent some of my weekends looking for AOP articles and books. Graham O'Regan's article demonstrates how powerful AOP is and how it can be easily done using AspectWerkz. Naveen Balani's article shows you how Spring does it so that you do not need to add similar lines of code to obtain a Hibernate session to begin a transaction. Spring also
Just as you might not have an idea what AOP is:
It is a solution to the problem of creating clean and well-encapsulated without extraneous functionality.
Explained by Joseph and Nicholas in the book "Mastering AspectJ – Aspect-Oriented Programming in Java". You can find a sample chapter of the book from this link. The introduction explains how Object Oriented programming (OOP) came into play when procedural and functional programming turned ugly and how AOP fills in the blanks of OOP.
Some keywords of AOP are: Advice, Aspect, Cross-cutting concerns, Join points, Point-cut
I am not too sure how AOP can be applied to complicated frameworks such as webMethods. I certainly not a big fan of writing codes to deal with the core API to open and close connection for every transaction that I make. I got around this in my earliest webMethods related project by writing some Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs), Data Access Objects (DAOs) and Data Transfer Objects (DTOs). But they still took me quite some time and I would not know how complicated they could be if someone raised some new concerns.
I am new to Mule but I certainly love how lightweight it is and its support for regular POJOs and Spring embedment.
- yc, aspected
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