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AOP and IoC

cut across multiple components in a system.

AOSD makes it possible to modularize and separate these services and then apply them declaratively to the components and we can focus on our own specific concerns. For instance if we talk of spring framework, there aspects are wired into objects in the spring XML file in the same way as JavaBean does. This process is also known as ‘Weaving’.

 In a typical object-oriented development approach the developer might implement logging functionality by putting logger statements in all your methods and Java classes. In an AOP approach you would instead modularize the logging services and apply them declaratively to the components that required logging. The advantage, of course, is that the Java class doesn’t need to know about the existence of the logging service or concern itself with any related code. As a result, application code written with Spring AOP is loosely coupled. 

Lets do a comparison of OOP’s model with an AOP model, diagrammatically:

Comparison:OOP's Model with an AOP Model

Here, the OOPs model shows that a source codeis directly compiled to an executable form. On the other hand, the AOP model depicts the flow such that the source code in the OOP model gets compiled with the aspects such that it modifies the behavior of the OOPs model and modularizes the crosscutting concerns.

Among the most OOPs languages, Java is a true Object-Oriented Programming language with a best support for AOP techniques. There are multiple tools available to support AOP with Java, few of them are shown below:

  · AspectJ
· AspectWerkz
· Hyper/J
· JAC
· JMangler
· MixJuice
· PROSE
· ArchJava

II. IoC: Inversion Of Control

“The IoC pattern enables better software design that facilitates reuse, loose coupling, and easy testing of software components.”

The basic concept of the Inversion of Control pattern (also known as dependency injection) is that you do not create your objects but describe how they should be created. You avoid connecting components and services together in your code. Instead the configuration files are used to describe the services needed by a component .

The Inversion of Control (IoC) pattern, also known as Dependency Injection, has recently become popular in the JEE community. Several open source projects, including Spring, PicoContainer, and HiveMind, use the IoC pattern to develop lightweight J2EE Containers. IoC is not a new concept, however. It has been around for several years now. Using object-oriented design principles and features such as interface, inheritance, and polymorphism, the IoC pattern enables better software design that facilitates reuse, loose coupling, and easy testing of software components.

Inversion of Control (IoC) means that objects do not create other objects on which they rely to do their work. Instead, they get the objects that they need from an outside source (for example, an xml configuration file). 

Dependency Injection (DI) means that this is done without the object intervention, usually by a framework component that passes constructor parameters and set properties.

Nov 2007 | Java Jazz Up | 6
 
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