All About AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming)

AOP or Policy Injection is a complement to OOP (Object Oriented Programming) which addresses modularity problems such as Tracing, Exception Handling, Security, Transaction Management, Caching, Thread Management, Performance Counters, Parameter Checks, Event Subscriptions, etc.

Learning:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc164165.aspx
• http://www.springframework.net/doc-latest/reference/html/aop.html#aop-introduction-defn

AOP Open Source Frameworks:

• http://csharp-source.net/open-source/aspect-oriented-frameworks

Benefits of AOP:

• It decouples the business logic from the system plumbing
• It simplifies long-term maintenance

Terminalogy:

• AOP
• Aspect
• Cross-cutting Concerns
• Advice
• Pointcut
• Join Points
• AOSD