Pointcuts by pattern Going through all the different ways of defining pointcuts and explaining them in an easy manner would be a near impossible feat for this post. Rather than aiming for the impossible let’s narrow down the scope, and talk about the most commonly used pointcut definitions and how we can experiment with them. We will get you started with defining your own pointcuts! You can get the code for this blog series at the Git repository here.

Aspect Oriented Programming AOP is both a complex and quite simple thing. There has been a lot of buzz around AOP but recently the buzz has faded. The question that people still ask is “what do I do with it”. Hopefully you will have an idea of what it is and create your own thoughts on how you could use it. In this post I aim to describe what AOP actually is and how it works.

What is AOP Every time someone tries to explain AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming) they often use words like “magic” or “black magic”. And that’s understandable, especially if you come from an OOP world and come across AOP it really feels like “magic”: something is happening and you as a developer usually don’t know why, what or how. AspectJ is one of the more well-known implementations for AOP in Java and is developed by the Eclipse Foundation.