Been reading up on "Aspect Orientated Programming", which is
apparently very well supported by an Eclipse plugin called AspectJ,
AOP is a popular buzzword right now:
http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/
The eclipse plugin update site can be found here:
http://www.eclipse.org/ajdt/downloads/
In essence, it lets you write code that is called before or after
particular methods, which can be specified using wildcards if
necessary. So, for example, you could specify that a log message
should be sent to stdout before any call to a method beginning with
set*. This can be useful for debugging among other things.
Here are some examples of this:
http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/doc/released/progguide/starting-
development.html
Aspects can also be used outside development in production code:
http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/doc/released/progguide/starting-
production.html
Anyway, I'm not saying we should use this just because it is the
buzzword of the month, but it seems like the type of thing that could
come in handy in complex projects like our's and so we should be
aware of it.
Ian.
