JBoss AOP

JBoss AOP is a 100% Pure Java aspected oriented framework usuable in any programming environment or tightly integrated with our application server. Aspects allow you to more easily modularize your code base when regular object oriented programming just doesn't fit the bill. It can provide a cleaner separation from application logic and system code. It provides a great way to expose integration points into your software. Combined with JDK 1.5 Annotations, it also is a great way to expand the Java language in a clean pluggable way rather than using annotations solely for code generation.

JBoss AOP is not only a framework, but also a prepackaged set of aspects that are applied via annotations, pointcut expressions, or dynamically at runtime. Some of these include caching, asynchronous communication, transactions, security, remoting, and many many more.

The Project

Project Lead: Kabir Khan
Active Contributors: Bill Burke, Flavia Rainone, Staale Pedersen, Marc Fleury, Adrian Brock, Claude Hussenet, Marshall Culpepper
Discussion: User forum | Design forum | Mailing list | Build mailing list
Downloads: 2.1.8.GA
Sourcecontrol: Build from Subversion
Notifications: Get email when there is a new AOP release
JIRA Issue Tracking: Bug/Feature Requests

Articles on JBoss AOP

DZone, August 2008, An Introduction to Aspect-Oriented programming with JBoss AOP, by Kabir Khan
AOSD08 - Industry Track, April 2008, Rearchitecting JBoss AS 5 with AOP in the Core - Moving from a microkernel to a microcontainer, by Kabir Khan and Flavia Rainone
OnJava, September 2004, "Aspect-Oriented Annotations", by Bill Burke
Linux Magazine, June 2004, "Killer App for AOP", by Bill Burke and Marc Fleury
InformIT, June 25 2004, "A Primer for Aspect-Oriented Programming in Java", by Tim Stevens
Javaworld, July 5 2004, "Second-generation aspect-oriented programming", by Dave Schweisguth
Java Developer's Journal, December 2003, "It's the Aspects", by Bill Burke

Talks on JBoss AOP

JustJava2008, Sao Paulo, September 2008, "Designing a J2EE Server with IoC and AOP: A Study Case", by Flavia Rainone
JustJava2008, Sao Paulo, September 2008, "Dynamic Aspect-Oriented Programming and Adaptable Systems", by Flavia Rainone
AOSD08 - Industry Track, April 2008, Rearchitecting JBoss AS 5 with AOP in the Core - Moving from a microkernel to a microcontainer, by Flavia Rainone
JustJava2007, Sao Paulo, October 2007, "JBoss AOP: Advanced Aspect-Oriented Topics", by Flavia Rainone
JBoss Night, a SouJava talk event, Sao Paulo, August 2007, "JBoss AOP 2.0", by Flavia Rainone
JBoss World 2006, Berlin, November 2006, "JBoss AOP Advanced", by Kabir Khan
JBoss World 2005, Atlanta, March 2005, "Aspect Oriented Programming", by Anant Athale, Kabir Khan and Michael Yuan

Documentation

You can find the JBoss AOP documentation here .

If you are using JBoss AOP with JBoss AS, then you should review the JBoss AS documentation for details beyond the documentation outlined below.

Online Tutorials

We are constantly publishing tutorials at our blog:

Typed Advices, February/May 2008, by Flavia Rainone
Dynamic AOP, June/July 2008, by Flavia Rainone

Community Links

JBoss AOP Wiki

JBoss AOP User Forum

JBoss AOP Design Forum

JBoss AOP Jira Issue Tracking

Contributing Aspects

If you have an idea for an aspect with JBoss AOP, go to this Wiki Page and add your link. If you are interested in this becoming part of JBoss AOP's aspect library, please email the JBoss AOP team kabir.khan@jboss.com or flavia.rainone@jboss.com.

Thanks to JProfiler for providing the AOP team with an open source license.

JBoss AOP News

Debugging JBoss AOP Apps Tutorial - Part 3: Dec 5, 2008 2:00 PM by Flavia Rainone; This is the final part of our tutorial on debugging. In this part, we will show how to debug the overloaded-advices example step …

Aophelper: Nov 29, 2008 7:17 AM by Ståle W. Pedersen; With the release of JBoss AOP 2.0.0 we also included a few new tools. One of them is an application we called Aophelper. The idea …

Debugging JBoss AOP Apps Tutorial - Part 2: Nov 4, 2008 2:22 PM by Flavia Rainone; In this part of the tutorial we are going to see what JBoss AOP classes and methods are involved in the call of advices, so you kn…

JBoss AOP 2.0.0.GA Released: Oct 21, 2008 12:36 PM by Kabir Khan; JBoss AOP 2.0.0.GA has been released. It can be downloaded from here, the full release notes can be found here, and the updated do…

Debugging JBoss AOP Apps Tutorial - Part1: Sep 30, 2008 7:52 PM by Flavia Rainone; Now and then I run into users complaining they don't know how to debug JBoss AOP applications. Targetting those users, I decided t…

JustJava and JBoss Brasil: Sep 9, 2008 8:24 PM by Flavia Rainone; Hello everyone!I have great news from Brazil. First, I'm going to do two talks at JustJava, the largest Brazilian Java event.The t…

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