Aspect-Oriented Programming

Aspect-Oriented Programming — A programming model that modularizes cross-cutting behavior by applying advice at defined join points selected by pointcuts.

Software-Engineering Context

AOP is useful for transactions, authorization, metrics, and tracing when the interception boundary is explicit. Proxy-based AOP has semantic limits: self-invocation, final methods, visibility, proxy type, and object construction can determine whether advice runs at all.

Related Software-Engineering Concepts

• proxy
• Transaction Propagation
• cross-cutting concern
• interceptor