Chapter 1. Understanding AOP Concepts

This chapter presents an overview of Aspect-Oriented Programming concepts, and explains their capabilities and features. Here is a brief outline of the topics covered in this chapter:

  • Limits of Object-Oriented Programming

  • The AOP solutions

  • Spring AOP components

  • Spring AOP 2.5

In this chapter we will see what the designing and realization process of an application or software system consists of.

We have to stop and think about the problems that we will see, beginning from the designing phase: how to structure the application, what are the problems in the implementation phase if we use only object-oriented programming, and in which forms they show themselves. We will also see how aspect-oriented programming can support ...

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