MOPping Up Groovy
Groovy's dynamic capabilities makes it an attractive language for Meta Programming.
There are several facilities to intercept method calls to do AOP kind of operations.
You can also inject methods dynamically. You can also easily perform method synthesis as well.
In this presentation we will take a look at techniques that make Groovy pretty Hip for MOP.
Exploring MOP
Understanding Groovy's method handling mechanism
Accessing methods and properties dynamically
Method interception
Method injection
Method synthesis
Method delegation
Applying MOP to real world projects
About Venkat Subramaniam
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.
He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.
Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.
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