Questions tagged [aspect-oriented]
Refers to Aspect-oriented Programming. According to Wikipedia, in computing, aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a programming paradigm that aims to increase modularity by allowing the separation of cross-cutting concerns.
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How to represent CDI interceptors in class diagram?
I have the following classes:
public class MyCaller{
@Inject private MyService service;
private void callerMethod(int arg1, String arg2){
service.serviceMethod(arg1, arg2);
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Wrapping methods without Decorator Pattern or AOP
I have a Dao interface which doesn't have any methods defined.
Then I have multiple classes which implement this interface, like PetDao and HouseDao.
For some of the implementation classes, and some ...
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Cross-cutting concerns and dependency injection
I've got a web application with an architecture somewhat like a front-controller MVC design. I get HTTP requests, route them, run them through a filter layer, dispatch them to my domain classes which ...
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Java: Is reflection bad for AOP situations?
Imagine the following situation:
1. Consume a 3rd party WSDL, out comes thousands of classes.
2. There's an opportunity to optimize performance by using a custom paralleled implementation.
3. Wsdl ...
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Role-based declarative security for C#
According to Domain Driven Design and Development In Practice:
Spring Security (a sub-project in Spring Portfolio) provides a
fine-grained access control in both presentation (URL based) and
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Adding behaviors to models without interference
This is my situation:
Models can contain properties which can be models themselves. Each property can have custom behavior, this behavior must be selected through its name (for example: Versionable, ...
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Patterns to allow for versatile data-flow hooks in Javascript
I have an application where I'd like to add ways for external modules/components to hook during the processes and data-flow and perform actions/modify data.
For the first requirement—performing ...
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Cache updates after not related REST request completes
I am wondering about the following scenario - it's in the land of Spring/AOP and Ehcache.
Happens in REST Web Application - REST/Service/DAO layers - I have objects in cache (@Repository + @Cacheable)....
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(Spring) AOP Design of Transactions
In our application we have several transactions, where each step is extensively logged.
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@Component
public class OurServiceImpl implements OurService {
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@Transactional
public ...
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Member and Function Injection in C++ Across Multiple Classes
I have a problem in which a variety of classes in C++ will want some functionality that is neither a "has a" nor an "is a" relationship.
The problem is that there are some members with associated ...
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Scoping behavioral variations to dynamic extents
While reading a paper in the context of Aspect Oriented Programming, I encountered following statement:
Aspects enable scoping variations in space (with a rich variety of
static pointcuts), in ...
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Programmatically extending Hibernate table/entity definitions in Spring, how?
I would like to know if there is a way —maybe with AOP— to extend table/entity definitions so that I can add functionality across the board that requires persistence.
Let me explain what I want to do ...
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DDD: Alternative view of the Model?
I have a model class, let's say it's a Book. I need it to be displayed on the screen. I want to have an escaped version of it, so I do not need to escape fields manually.
What should I do? I can
add ...
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Ensure that a method of a class is called after every method call of the same class, how? [duplicate]
I have twenty small methods (m1, m2, m3, etc..) in a class quite different between each other, and after every method i would like to do some common actions, like increasing some counters and in the ...
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API - How to handle scope based functionality?
TLDR;
Where and possibly how should I implement scope based logic in the
example code?
I have got a ASP.NET Web Api.
The Api uses OData (on top off REST) for data endpoints and OAuth 2.0 ...
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How should I handle measurement logging in my Discrete Event Simulation engine?
I'm attempting to build a Discrete Event Simulation library by following this tutorial and fleshing it out.
How should I handle logging metrics in my Discrete Event Simulation engine?
If you don't ...
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How to hide AOP implementation dependency without breaking encapsulation?
I have the concept of a SlowLoading thing:
public interface SlowLoading {
boolean hasLoaded();
}
I also have a component MyComponent:
public interface myComponent{
void doSomething();
}
My ...
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Can AspectJ or AOP in general be used to test exception handling?
I'm reading a book's chapter ("Controlled Exception Test" in "Testing Object-Oriented Testing") about testing exception handling in a running system (not at unit level). The conclusion is that it is ...
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Byte code weaving vs Lisp macros
I have been reading about the libraries people have written for languages like Java and C# that make use of byte code weaving to do things like intercept function calls, insert logging code, etc. I ...
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Loop fusion example using aspect-oriented framework
I had recently read a paper 'Aspect-Oriented Programming' by Gregor Kiczales and others, and found there the loop fusion example.
Here is a definition of the loop fusion from the paper
…the loop ...
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Progressbar patterns (Eclipse)
I've struggled quite a bit with Eclipse and progress-monitors to try to have good progressbars which report useful progress information to the user. Inevitably the code gets cluttered with lots of ...
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Spring AOP advice order
In Spring AOP, I can add an aspect at the following locations
before a method executes (using MethodBeforeAdvice)
after a method executes (using AfterReturningAdvice)
around a method (both before and ...
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Is Ruby on Rails' Active Record an example of Aspect-Oriented Programming?
From Clean Code, about Cross-Cutting Concerns:
Note that concerns like persistence tend to cut across the natural object boundaries of a domain. You want to persist all your objects using generally ...
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if it's been designed correctly is AOP useful? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Are certain problems solved more elegantly with AOP?
I don't know much about aspect oriented programming (AOP) but I looked at a few examples and it seems to me more of a ...
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PHP Aspect Oriented Design
This is a continuation of this Code Review question.
What was taken away from that post, and other aspect oriented design is it is hard to debug. To counter that, I implemented the ability to turn ...
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What are the differences between aspect-oriented, subject-oriented, and role-oriented programming?
I know there are many papers describing these three paradigms but I'm looking for a schematic explanation.
There are a few very good descriptions of aspect-oriented programming on here so I'm asking ...
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Is AOP widely used in the enterprise sector
I'm curious to here the opinions of people working in large enterprise organisation whether AOP is widely (or even modestly) used when they are developing? Is AOP something which is inherent in the ...
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Is exception handling a cross-cutting concern?
I don't see much of a difference between the concerns of exception handling and logging in that both are cross cutting concerns. What do you think? Shouldn't it be handled separately on its own rather ...
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AOP concepts explained for the dummy
Can someone explain AOP concepts for dummies: join point, point cut, weaving etc.
For example: Aspect: a modularization of a concern that cuts across multiple classes. What does that mean?
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Is aspect-oriented programming a misnomer?
From everything I have learned about "Aspect-Oriented Programming" or "Aspect-Oriented Software Development," labeling it as a programming paradigm or methodology appears to be inaccurate. From what ...
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Aspect Oriented Programming: When to start using a framework?
I just watched this talk by Greg Young warning people to KISS: Keep It Simple Stupid.
One of the things he suggested is that to do aspect-oriented programming, one does not need a framework.
He ...
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Enforcement of returning non-null
We are implementing some web services, and need to ensure that some of our methods always return non-null values.
We've investigated two ways of doing this:
Using code contracts, and returning the ...
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are f# computational expressions a form of aspect oriented programming?
are monads, or more specifically f# computational expressions, a form of aspect oriented programming?
Update:
f# workflow builders have methods other than bind and unit. They have hooks for lots of ...
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How does one think about object oriented design and Aspect oriented Design for solution
I have worked on few projects in which both AOP and Object oriented paradigm were used. But, AOP usage was limited to logging only. I think AOP is a much more powerful technique. My question, to those ...
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Marking services for secure handling; Annotation or inheritance?
We have a lot of services, some that demand some security, some that don't.
We want an easy way of telling, in code, if a service will be secure or not.
What would be the better way: Annotation or ...
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The Underlying Value of Aspect-Oriented Programming [closed]
I recently got into PostSharp, an AOP tool for weaving in code. I've been finding a lot of resistance with other developers over giving up writing code to perform the tasks the weaving was meant to ...
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Aspect oriented programming and implicitness
Lets suppose that I have a class which represent an image and has a number of methods.
class Image
{
circle(x,y,radius,color);
square(x,y,w,h,color);
floodfill(x,y,color)
clear();
}
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Are certain problems solved more elegantly with AOP?
I've come across the idea of Aspect Oriented Programming, and I have some concerns with it.
The basic idea seems to be that we want to take cross-cutting concerns which aren't well modularized using ...
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What alternatives are there for cross cutting concerns other than aspect oriented programming? [closed]
Aspect oriented programming promises to deal with cross cutting concerns, but I'm not completely sold on it yet. Have there been any other attempts to deal with this problem?
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