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Modularization makes programming possible. Throughout the history of computing, a parade of organizational devices—the high-level language, the subroutine, the object—has allowed us to write ...

Aspect-oriented programming allows you to isolate the cross-cutting concerns of your application, reduce code duplication, and improve the readability and maintainability of your code. Aspect-oriented ...

Most applications have a number of cross-cutting concerns, such as logging, exception handling, transaction handling and security. These items do not deal with the core business logic of an ...