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[Coding the Architecture] Just a short note to plug a handful of sessions that Kevin and I are presenting at the upcoming Software Architect 2008 conference, 3rd-5th June, London. 1. Coding the Architecture : From Developer to Architect The first is a re-run of our ...
Dynamic AOP Programming in J2EE Environments
The last session I attended before jumping on a plane was about AOP in J2EE. This was a pretty good session although if you've looked at AOP before then there was nothing really new here. We saw some aspects for performance logging and authentication, but the most interesting part for me was how they used JMX to record the stats from the performance logging example. When the aspect was loaded a new MBean was registered and this could subsequently be accessed through the JMX client (the WebLogic console).