Foundations of AOP for J2EE Development

The concepts of AOP are presented independently of any particular implementation

The book covers all 4 major existing tools for AOP: AspectJ, JBoss AOP, AspectWerkz, JAC

The book covers the implementation of a technical aspect based on the Hibernate object/relational persistence framework, a J2EE application implemented with AspectJ, and applications of AOP in the domains of programming by contracts, program testing, and application management

Foundations of AOP for J2EE Development covers a relatively new programming paradigm: aspect oriented programming (AOP). The concept of an aspect was originally defined in 1996 by Gregor Kiczales and his team at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), a subsidiary of Xerox in California.

The last part of the book is dedicated to the development of J2EE applications with AOP. J2EE is well-known for being a rich and somewhat complicated framework. The authors show how AOP can ease this task and how AOP benefits J2EE.

Autorentext
Lionel Seinturier received his Ph.D. in computer science from the Conservatoire National des Arts et M tiers, Paris, in December 1997. He holds a research position in computer science at LIFL, a computer science research laboratory that is jointly owned by the University of Lille (France) and INRIA (the French research agency for computer science). He is also an assistant professor in computer science at the University of Paris VI. Before joining academia, Seinturier also worked as a research engineer for France Telecom's research and development department, on the integration of ATM network technology and CORBA middleware. Seinturier's research interests include AOP and systems, middleware, and distributed algorithms. He is one of the programmers of the JAC AOP framework and the author of more than 25 international publications, including articles and tutorials on AOP.

Inhalt
Introducing AOP.- The Concepts of AOP.- AspectJ.- Java Aspect Components.- JBoss AOP.- Spring AOP.- AOP Tools Comparison.- Design Patterns and AOP.- Quality of Service and AOP.- Presentation of the Sample Application.- Using AOP within the Sample Application's Business Tier.- Using AOP in the Sample Application's Presentation and Client Tiers.