Enterprise AOP

Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) has become a hot topic for enterprise development, with recent news of support by IBM, JBoss, BEA, Oracle, Eclipse, and IntelliJ.

Behind the news headlines, however, are critical questions: How real is AOP for the enterprise? What problems can it solve today? How does it apply to enterprise applications? How can one make an informed decision about trying to use AOP? What is the best adoption strategy? What are the long term possibilities for AOP in the enterprise?

This sessions tries to tackle those questions.

Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) has become a hot topic for enterprise development, with recent news of support by IBM, JBoss, BEA, Oracle, Eclipse, and IntelliJ.

Behind the news headlines, however, are critical questions: How real is AOP for the enterprise? What problems can it solve today? How does it apply to enterprise applications? How can one make an informed decision about trying to use AOP? What is the best adoption strategy? What are the long term possibilities for AOP in the enterprise?

This session tackles these questions and show developers, architects, and technical managers how AOP can be used for enterprise Java application development. We provide a refresher of AOP concepts and show enterprise examples of how AOP works and where it can be beneficial, as well as discussing anti-patterns (i.e., how not to use AOP).

Examples discussed include error handling, policy enforcement, tracing, systems management with JMX, and more. The examples are implemented in the AspectJ programming language (a popular and seamless aspect-oriented extension to Java) and incorporate major J2EE technologies such as servlets, JSPs, and EJBs. We will also demonstrate using the AspectJ tools to work in an enterprise environment. At the end of the tutorial, participants will have a better understanding of both the potential and the pitfalls for applying AOP in a J2EE context. The tools used in the tutorial are all freely available as open source software, so participants will be able to use the techniques shown in their own projects.

About Dion Almaer

Dion Almaer is the founder and CTO of Adigio, Inc. He is an architect, mentor, pragmatic, and evangelist of technologies such as J2EE, JDO, AOP, and Groovy. He is the Editor-in-Chief of TheServerSide.com J2EE Community and enjoys working in the community. He is a member of the Java Community Process, where he participates on various expert groups.

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