I guess after the somewhat sarcastic and critical tone of my previous post, I have no room to gripe anymore… my final submission to JavaOne has been accepted. It is entitled “Practical Application of Aspects in Everyday Development” – I hope it’s something that peaks your interest…
Just to wet your appetite, here’s the summary from the submitted abstract:
Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) is a recent shift in software development that allows for transparent injection of functionality into standard object oriented designs. While obviously a very powerful concept, it seems to still be limited to very specific types of frameworks and not yet harnessed as an integral part of the developer’s toolkit. Frameworks such as the Spring Framework and PicoContainer utilize aspects to provide powerful transactional and runtime binding functionality, but are aspects limited to these types of container frameworks? This discussion will focus on the practical applications of aspects in everyday programming scenarios and the types of problems they can solve. From the transparent injection of logging to the validation of method parameters, aspects can be used as a standard part of everyday development.
Right now the talk is slated to be a Birds-of-a-Feather session which means it will be a pretty informal 50-minute evening talk with about 150 attendee slots. Time to start prepin’....
I originally thought I was being pretty damn over achieving by submitting 3 proposals to JavaOne, of which only one got accepted. But then you’ve got Debu Panda over there who got 3 submissions accepted – who knows how many he submitted? Well done, man.
