Modularization makes programming possible. Throughout the history of computing, a parade of organizational devices—the high-level language, the subroutine, the object—has allowed us to write ...

To understand aspect-oriented programming (AOP), let’s first take a look at two models of labor union organization in the U.S. The old American Federation of Labor organized workers vertically, ...

Aspect-oriented programming allows you to isolate the cross-cutting concerns of your application, reduce code duplication, and improve the readability and maintainability of your code. Aspect-oriented ...

Most applications have a number of cross-cutting concerns, such as logging, exception handling, transaction handling and security. These items do not deal with the core business logic of an ...

Could the adoption of aspect-oriented design practices lead us to better designs more quickly? Initial forays with these techniques in verification were not completely successful. In 1992, had the ...

There’s a small but determined group in the coding community who are only half joking when they declare that real coders write their own device drivers because doing anything else is lazy, ...

A programming language structure wherein the data and their associated processing ("methods") are defined as self-contained entities called "objects." Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm ...

Object caching provides a mechanism to store frequently accessed data in memory, minimizing the calls to back-end database, and resulting in significant improvement in the application performance. It ...

Aspect-oriented programming has the potential to help every developer write higher-quality code in less time. Here's how to declaratively apply custom methods implementing common functionality to your ...