5 Responses to “AspectJ in Action: Practical Aspect-Oriented Programming”

1. Frank Zhu says:

   February 1, 2010 at 5:39 am

   The book provides you out-of-box working codes to attack real world problems. The design patterns introduced in the book are most helpful. They let you feel the power of AOP. The book content are well organized and easy to understand.

   You might run into some huddles while working with AspectJ in IDEs, such as OutOfMemory problem, although ANT approach works very well. But that is a growing pain of any new technology.

   “I can only show you the door. You have to walk through it.”
   –From Matrix.

   The author surely did that.
   Rating: 5 / 5

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2. Jack D. Herrington says:

   February 1, 2010 at 8:11 am

   I read this book a while back and wasn’t completely impressed but I just picked it up again for this review and now I am much happier with it. The first four chapters provide an excellent grounding in Aspected Oriented Programming (AOP) with AspectJ. In particular the first chapter, which introduces the reader to AOP, shows the quality of writing and editing that Manning is known for.

   Chapters five through to the end apply AOP to various problems within Java application development, starting with logging (of course, the AOP perennial favorite.)

   On the downside I would have liked to have seen more information about where AOP is being used in production today. I’m not sure what the timing of the release was, but it would have been nice, if possible, to have had material on the use of AOP in JBoss.

   I have not read the other books on AspectJ, so I cannot provide a comparison of them. Even so, I have to say that if you are into AOP, or more importantly, looking at AspectJ, then I think you have to look at this book.

   (Full disclosure: I am a Manning author but I in no way allow that to effect my reviews.)
   Rating: 5 / 5

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3. Tzuchung Chang says:

   February 1, 2010 at 10:10 am

   The book I ordered was in “like new” condition, the price was cheap but the quality exceeded my expectation.
   Rating: 5 / 5

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4. Guy A. Paddock says:

   February 1, 2010 at 10:45 am

   This book is an excellent resource for learning AspectJ. It is perfectly organized to take you from beginner, novice, to expert as you move through each of the chapters, just as you might expect if you were taking a class in AspectJ.

   The author’s presentation of the material is straightforward and easy to follow, and his examples are not too involved that you lose track of what’s going on. Furthermore, the author has an excellent grasp of the language and is really able to show off the power AspectJ has to offer.

   What I really appreciate about the book is that he focuses not just on coding, but also on design; I’m a software engineer and am very pleased that the author discusses an aspect as something to be used elegantly, as part of a well-designed system, rather than just another tool that can be abused. He even discusses several new design patterns that AspectJ makes possible.

   I truly recommend this book!
   Rating: 5 / 5

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5. Tugdual Grall says:

   February 1, 2010 at 12:20 pm

   I loved this book, first of all the introduction is the most interesting presentation of AOP that I ever read.

   The other chapters are very good too since based on use-cases very easy to reproduce on projects…

   A book to have is you want to learn abour AOP (even if not interested by AspectJ per se…)
   Rating: 5 / 5

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