Old-school AOP with AspectJ Here’s an example of how aspect-oriented programming might be used in a middleware framework: Imagine that in our framework, a client accesses services via proxies. The ...

Functional requirements for mission critical applications often include software service level agreements (SLAs), which specify the maximum allowable latency for specific operations. Such requirements ...

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Most applications have a number of cross-cutting concerns, such as logging, exception handling, transaction handling and security. These items do not deal with the core business logic of an ...

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 ...