T2 : Aspect-Oriented Programming with AspectJ (1) : Introduction

Date	Monday, March 14, 2005 morning (half day)
Presenters	Julie Waterhouse, IBM Mik Kersten, University of British Columbia
Level	Introductory: Attendees should have experience doing object-oriented design and implementation, and should be able to read and write Java code. No prior experience with aspect-oriented programming or AspectJ is required.

Abstract

AspectJ is a seamless aspect-oriented extension to Java(tm). It can be used to cleanly modularize the crosscutting structure of concerns such as exception handling, multi-object protocols, synchronization, performance optimizations, and resource sharing.

When implemented in a non-aspect-oriented fashion, the code for these concerns typically becomes spread out across entire programs. AspectJ controls such code-tangling and makes the underlying concerns more apparent, making programs easier to develop and maintain.

This tutorial will introduce Aspect-oriented programming and show how to use AspectJ to implement crosscutting concerns in a concise, modular way.

AspectJ is freely available at http://eclipse.org/aspectj/

Biographies

Julie Waterhouse is a Research Staff Member at IBM Toronto's Centre for Advanced Studies. She is active in IBM's AOP community, leading research projects and a technical interest group in the area. She is also a committer on the AJDT eclipse.org project.

Mik Kersten is a PhD student and IBM CAS fellow at the University of British Columbia, where he is working on making IDEs more Aspect-Oriented. He is also a committer on the AspectJ and AJDT eclipse.org projects. Before going back to school he developed the original AspectJ IDE integration at Xerox PARC.