Object caching provides a mechanism to store frequently accessed data in memory, minimizing the calls to back-end database, and resulting in significant improvement in the application performance. It ...

COMMENTARY--There is a lot of talk and excitement about AOP (aspect oriented programming) in the field these days. Hard-core technologists intuitively understand the cutting-edge nature and potential ...

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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 ...

In Part 1 of this three-part series on aspect-oriented programming (AOP), I introduced AOP concepts and briefly gave AOP implementation examples. Continuing that trend in this article, I present a ...