Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) is a new paradigm that allows you to organize and layer your software applications in ways that are impossible with traditional object-oriented approaches. Aspects allow you to transparently glue functionality together so that you can have a more layered design. AOP allows you to intercept any event in a Java program and trigger functionality based on those events. Mixins allow you to introduce multiple inheritance to Java so that you can provide APIs for your aspects. Combined with JDK 5.0 annotations, it allows you to extend the Java language with new syntax.
JBoss AOP is a 100% Pure Java aspected oriented framework usable in any programming environment or tightly integrated with our application server.
This document is meant to be a boring reference guide. It focuses solely on syntax and APIs and worries less about providing real world examples. Please see our "User Guide: The Case for Aspects" document for a more interesting discussion on the use of aspects.
If you have questions, use the user forum linked on the JBoss AOP website. We also provide tracking links for tracking bug reports and feature requests. If you are interested in the development of JBoss AOP, post a message on the forum. If you are interested in translating this documentation into your language, contact us on the developer mailing list.
Commercial development support, production support and training for JBoss AOP is available through JBoss Inc. (see http://www.jboss.org/). JBoss AOP is a project of the JBoss Professional Open Source product suite.
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