[aosd-discuss] AOP languages mature enough to used in industry

[Michael Haupt]

Hi Dean,

Am 17.05.2007 um 03:59 schrieb Dean Wampler:

> I've been doing a lot of experimenting with aspects in Ruby lately.
> Implementing advice and introductions for individual classes and
> "modules" (like "mixins") are trivial to do in Ruby. It's a bit more
> involved to advising groups of classes and modules in one place. In
> fact, what everyone overlooks is that the most important feature of
> any AOP framework is really the pointcut language.
>

but that is only true for PA-flavoured AOP languages, isn't it?

Spring AOP worked very well without an explicit pointcut language.  
Advice simply applied where proxies would implement the same methods  
as client classes.


> It's hard to write
> a sophisticated pointcut language in Ruby, like most non-AOP
> languages, although Ruby has excellent facilities that help.
>

Do you really, really need one?

Best,

Michael

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