Archive for September, 2008

Getting Started with Java Web Development

If you come from another web language such as PHP and you are willing to learn java as a web development language, you may encounter some difficulties. The ammount of different java frameworks and techniques for java web development is overwhelming. In order to put order into the mess, here are some steps that every beginner should do in order to excel with java on the web.

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Intro to Aspect Oriented Programming with AspectJ

You have all your project done and ready to rock. After a couple of months, the customer decides to add more features and, guess what, that means you will have to alter significant part of your well structured code with clutter that was not really part of the original specification. If there only was a way to add the extra functionality without altering the code…

And there is! That’s why AOP, Aspect Oriented Programming, exists. Don’t be scared by the name: AOP is nothing more than add extra code to your code without altering your code.

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