Eclipse AspectJ: Aspect-Oriented Programming with AspectJ and the Eclipse AspectJ Development Tools (The Eclipse Series)

With AspectJ, Java developers can leverage the breakthrough power of Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) using a language they already know, within the comfortable, highly productive Eclipse development environment. In this book, AspectJ's lead developers help you master AOP's essential principles and techniques, as you use them to address your toughest software quality, productivity, and maintenance challenges. AOP improves the modularity of programs, making the code much closer to the design. It can dramatically reduce the time taken to implement common features and functions, improve quality, integrate plain-old Java objects with systems and services, create simpler, more reusable components, and much more besides. Drawing on their experience as tool developers, programmers, and mentors, the authors cover every facet of AOP development with AspectJ and Eclipse, from creating new projects through extending and documenting full-fledged applications. You'll find an authoritative tutorial covering the entire AspectJ language, a complete API reference, and realistic guidance on adopting AspectJ in your organization. No AOP or Eclipse experience necessary! Install and configure both Eclipse and the AspectJ Development Tools (AJDT) Discover how AOP can modularize and optimize everything from error checking to performance Craft new AspectJ applications and incorporate AOP capabilities into existing systems Build, debug, and document AspectJ applications Understand crucial AOP concepts, such as join points, pointcuts, advice, and inter-type declarations Master advanced techniques: Aspect libraries, linking with compiled .class files, visualization, aspect-oriented design, and more Now every Java developer can leverage the immense power of AOP With AspectJ, Java developers can leverage the breakthrough power of Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) using a language they already know, within the comfortable, highly productive Eclipse development environment. In this book, AspectJ's lead developers help you master AOP's essential principles and techniques, as you use them to address your toughest software quality, productivity, and maintenance challenges. AOP improves the modularity of programs, making the code much closer to the design. It can dramatically reduce the time taken to implement common features and functions, improve quality, integrate plain-old Java objects with systems and services, create simpler, more reusable components, and much more besides. Drawing on their experience as tool developers, programmers, and mentors, the authors cover every facet of AOP development with AspectJ and Eclipse, from creating new projects through extending and documenting full-fledged applications. You'll find an authoritative tutorial covering the entire AspectJ language, a complete API reference, and realistic guidance on adopting AspectJ in your organization. No AOP or Eclipse experience necessary! Install and configure both Eclipse and the AspectJ Development Tools (AJDT) Discover how AOP can modularize and optimize everything from error checking to performance Craft new AspectJ applications and incorporate AOP capabilities into existing systems Build, debug, and document AspectJ applications Understand crucial AOP concepts, such as join points, pointcuts, advice, and inter-type declarations Master advanced techniques: Aspect libraries, linking with compiled .class files, visualization, aspect-oriented design, and more The accompanying website, www.awprofessional.com/title/0321245873, is full of samples, examples, and source code to help you start writing Java-based AOP software today. © Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved Aspect-oriented programming grew out of research at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) during the 1990's. The first paper to use the term was aptly titled "Aspect-Oriented Programming"(Kicz97), and published in June of 1997. The first public release of AspectJ was in March of 1998, almost seven years ago. Interest in aspect-oriented programming (AOP) and in AspectJ has been growing steadily ever since. We still recall the excitement of seeing our first aspect-oriented programs run - it felt like magic! Today, we spend our time both developing the tools needed for aspect-oriented programming with AspectJ, and applying those tools to real-world problems. In the course of our work, we've had the privilege to introduce the ideas of aspect-oriented programming to many developers, architects, and executives. We've learnt that seeing AspectJ in use is a vital part of understanding these new ideas. For this reason, when we talk to people about AOP, we also show what it's like to work with an aspect-oriented program using the Eclipse AspectJ Development Tools (AJDT). AJDT helps to visualize the behaviour of AspectJ programs and reinforces understanding in a way that words alone cannot achieve. Our goal for this book is to teach you everything you need to understand aspect-oriented programming and to apply it successfully on your own projects. To that end, we'll be introducing the concepts of AOP, the AspectJ language, and the AspectJ Development Tools for Eclipse, in a single integrated package. We hope that as you work through the examples in the book, you will come to share our excitement at all that AOP has tooffer Aspect-oriented software design (ASOD), which follows the Java philosophy of "write once, run anywhere", is a new way of thinking about program construction. It is a rapidly growing and evolving programming methodology that some feel may eventually replace object-orientation as the dominant programming paradigm. The first public release of the AspectJ programming language was in 1998 and has been gaining momentum ever since. This book is an introduction to AOP with AspectJ and Eclipse and shows how to create a productive AO development environment by using the AspectJ Development Tools for Eclipse (AJDT). Tools have an important role to play in learning aspect-orientation (AO) and Eclipse tools help Java developers better understand AOP. In fact the growing interest in AOP can be attributed to the better available tools and this book teaches the reader everything they need to understand AOP and apply it successfully to their own projects.