1. Introduction to
Aspect Oriented Programming
by Yan Cui @theburningmonk
theburningmonk.com

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4. • Overview
 Cross-Cutting Concerns
 AOP
 What’s in it for you
• AOP
 Terminologies
 AOP and OOP
 Solutions
• Q&A

5. the PROBLEM...
CROSS-CUTTING CONCERNS

6. Cross-Cutting Concerns
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7. • Cuts across multiple abstractions
• Difficult to decompose
• High-coupling
• Boilerplate code

8. • Code tangling and scattering
 Poor traceability
 Lower productivity
 Less code reuse
 Harder refactoring

9. the SOLUTION...
ASPECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING

10. “AOP is a programming paradigm which
aims to increase modularity by allowing
the separation of cross-cutting concerns”
- wikipedia

12. AOP
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14. • Centralize concerns implementation
• Intercept method calls
• Inject new behaviour
• More reusable code
• Cleaner code

15. What’s in it for YOU?

16. • Write less code
• Read less code
• More concise and easy to understand
• More maintainable

17. • Fewer code = FEWER DEFECTS!
• Less boilerplate code
• More interesting work
• Increased attention
• More PRODUCTIVITY!

18. dive a little deeper into...
AOP

19. • Join Point
 Place where behaviour can be added
 start/end of method
 property getter/setter
 ...

20. • Advice
 Code that’s injected at join points
 Logging
 Validation
 ...

21. • Point cut
 Join points where advice should be
applied

22. • Aspect
 Container holding point cuts and advice
 Aspect is to AOP what class is to OOP

23. • Weaving
 Combines advices with point cuts

24. • AOP is complementary to OOP
• AOP targets a specific problem
• Code modularization
 OOP – Real world objects
 AOP – Functionalities

25. • Help you S.O.L.I.Dify your code
 Single responsibility
 Open/close

26. • You can do AOP via:
 Dynamic Proxies
 Functional Programming
 Code Generation
 Dynamic Languages
 Static Weaving

27. AOP via...
DYNAMIC PROXIES

28. • IoC framesworks
 Castle
 Spring.Net
• Dynamic interceptors

29. Dynamic Proxies
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31. • Advantages
 Can use existing DI framework
 Built-in aspects (logging, etc.)
 Aspects can be configured after build

32. • Disadvantages
 Significant change to base code required to adapt
 Limited AOP features
 Do not work on static, non-public methods
 Do not work on fields, properties, or events
 Higher run-time overhead
 No build-time verification
 Objects must be instantiated using the container

33. NOOOO Sir!!
Class, is AOP the same as
Dependency Injection?

34. AOP via...
FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING

35. Functional
Programming
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37. • Advantages
 No external dependencies

38. • Disadvantages
 Requires modification to every function
 No support for matching rules
 Manual aspect composition

39. AOP via...
CODE GENERATION

40. • T4, CodeSmith tools

41. • Advantages
 Easy to generate complex source code

42. • Disadvantages
 Input is usually XML
 Cannot inject new behaviour to existing
code

43. AOP via...
DYNAMIC LANGUAGES

44. Dynamic Languages
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45. • Advantages
 Meta-programming is easy

46. • Disadvantages
 Switch to a dynamic language can be hard
 No (limited) Visual Studio tooling

47. AOP via...
STATIC WEAVING

48. • PostSharp, AspectJ
• Uses low-level MSIL transformation
• Compile time

49. Requirements
Aspect Decomposition
Aspects Core program
Aspect Recomposition
Final System

50. PostSharp
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51. • Advantages
 Most complete support of AOP features
 Aspect usage is verified at build time
 Better runtime performance

52. • Disadvantages
 Increased build time
 New to many developers

53. PostSharp Examples
• Auto-implement INotifyPropertyChanged
• Undo/Redo
• Thread dispatching
• Transaction handling
• Performance Monitoring

54. • Performance Monitoring
 Method execution time
 Method execution count
 Error count

55. Record exec time
Publish to Amazon CloudWatch

57. • Amazon CloudWatch
 Cheap to run
 Supports alarms and notifications
 Visualization tool

58. • http://bit.ly/KRDdgr

59. Thank You!
@theburningmonk
theburningmonk.com