Object caching provides a mechanism to store frequently accessed data in memory, minimizing the calls to back-end database, and resulting in significant improvement in the application performance. It ...

COMMENTARY--There is a lot of talk and excitement about AOP (aspect oriented programming) in the field these days. Hard-core technologists intuitively understand the cutting-edge nature and potential ...

While aspect-oriented programming (AOP) offers a powerful means of modularizing programs, and a robust, feature-rich implementation for the Java platform is available in AspectJ, AOP is not yet in the ...

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Most developers will acknowledge how implementing crosscutting concerns such as logging, auditing, security and transactionality can adversely affect business logic implementation. Such concerns “seem ...