Ron Bodkin

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) has become a hot topic of discussion for enterprise development, with recent news of support by IBM, JBoss, BEA, Eclipse, and IntelliJ. What's real? What is AOP? What problems can it solve today? How can you make an informed decision about using AOP? What is the best adoption strategy? What are the long term possibilities for AOP? This session answers these questions, and gives an introduction to AOP for enterprise Java development. AspectJ is a seamless AOP extension to Java. It allows consistent and flexible implementation of crosscutting concerns such as security , exception handling, testing, logging, caching, and business rules. This is a major improvement on scattered and tangled traditional implementations. This tutorial introduc... (more)

Testing with Virtual Mock Objects

This session provides an overview of JUnit and mock objects. It also demonstrates a new way of using Aspect-Oriented Programming to write "virtual mock objects." These virtual mocks simplify the isolation of tested classes, allow easy introduction of mocks in a context sensitive manner without compromising the original design, and facilitate thorough analysis of test results. Attendees w... (more)