Java Pub House

In this episode we go over Aspects (and AspectJ), what really is, and when to use them. It turns out, that there is nothing misterious about them! We also cover how to set-up Aspects for J2SE so you can start using them immediately!

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VM Parameter
-javaagent:dep/aspectjweaver.jar

Example Aspect

@Aspect

public class OrderAspect {

@Before("execution(* *.*(Order))") // must qualify
public void anyCall() {
System.out.println("Was called from anywhere");
}
}

Example aop.xml file

          <aspectj>
<aspects>
<aspect name="OrderAspect"/>
</aspects>
<weaver options="-verbose -showWeaveInfo">
</weaver>
</aspectj>

Example Folder Structure

src
|
|-META-INF
|
|-aop.xml

References:

http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/doc/released/adk15notebook/ataspectj-pcadvice.html

http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/doc/next/quick5.pdf

http://blog.espenberntsen.net/2010/03/20/aspectj-cheat-sheet/

(Using aspects with annotations)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2011089/aspectj-pointcut-for-all-methods-of-a-class-with-specific-annotation

Direct download: JPHE8.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:00pm CST

In this episode we talk about Threads and Threading, the difference between Daemon and User Threads, and why changing priorities is not for the weak of heart. Also we cover Swing's golden Threading rule (with the Event Dispatching Thread). If you ever typed new Thread(), or if you heard to be careful about Swing and Threading, this episode is for you!

Direct download: JPHE7.mp3
Category:Multithreading -- posted at: 9:43pm CST

In this week's podcast we talk about Design Patterns (and the Grand Dads of the Software Patterns, the Gang-of-four), and dive into our first design pattern (of many), the Observer pattern. We discussed how to implemented (within Java), and went to describe its use in Java Swing, and why anonymous inner classes for Listeners doesn't create memory leaks (most of the time anyways). In all a great introduction to a first pattern (see what they are all about!)

Direct download: JPHE6.mp3
Category:Patterns -- posted at: 5:40pm CST

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