Software Engineering Radio

Recording Venue: QCon San Francisco 2009
Guest(s): Ramnivas Laddad

Host(s): Robert
This episode is a conversation with Ramnivas Laddad about aspect-oriented programming (AOP), Aspect J, and Spring AOP. We review the fundamental concepts of AOP, discuss AspectJ (an open source compiler that extends java with support for AOP), and cover the Spring Framework’s proxy-based AOP system. Laddad also gives his thoughts on the use cases for AOP and where we are in the technology adoption curve, and updates on the state of the AspectJ project itself.

Links:

• AspectJ in Action: Enterprise AOP with Spring Applications (2nd edition) by Ramnivas Laddad
• Episode 145: Spring in 2009 with Eberhard Wolff
• Episode 106: Introduction to AOP
• Episode 49: Dynamic Languages
• Episode 11: Gregor Kiczales
• Ramnivas Laddad’s web site
• Follow Ramnivas Laddad on Twitter
• AspectJ Development Tools
• Spring AOP Support Forum
• The AspectJ project
• AspectJ User Mailing Lists
• The Spring Framework

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Recording Venue:
Guest(s): Christa Schwanninger,
Iris Groher

Host(s): Markus
This episode is a systematic introduction to Aspect Oriented Programming (in contrast to the interview with Gregor Kiczales). We discuss the fundamentals of AOP, define many of the relevant terms and also look at how and where AOP is used in practice, as well as at some current research trends.

Links:

• Home page of the early aspects (RE and design) community
• Spring for .NET
• AspectJ project on Eclipse
• Spring (Java framework including AOP support)
• Home page of the AOP-Alliance, that does quasi standards for AOP
• Project web site of the Aspect-Oriented Model-Driven Product Line Engineering funded project
• “The” AOSD home page, also for the international conference on AOSD
• Project web site of an European funded project on AOSD
• JBossAOP

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