AOP Alliance is a set of interfaces that multiple frameworks implement (see AOP Alliance Motivations), including both Guice and Spring. AOP Alliance was chosen for Guice because it has a high capability and a simple API. The Guice wiki has an AOP guide.
Python supports AOP by letting you dynamically modify its classes at runtime (which in Python is typically called monkeypatching rather than AOP). Here are some of my AOP use cases: I have a website in which every page is generated by a Python function. I’d like to take a class and make all of the … Read more
One of the examples which was loaned straight from this Aspect Oriented Programming: Radical Research in Modularity, Youtube video was painting to a display. In the example you have a drawing program, which consists of points, shapes, etc and when changes to those objects occur you need to tell the display to update itself. Without … Read more
AOP addresses the problem of cross-cutting concerns, which would be any kind of code that is repeated in different methods and can’t normally be completely refactored into its own module, like with logging or verification. So, with AOP you can leave that stuff out of the main code and define it vertically like so: function … Read more