I would say that this is a survival guide more than a cookbook for the people who interested to try the AOP. This is book with a well structure to express its contents by problem-solution-discussion fomat. Reader can find what he need quickly from the book.
For the people who would try AOP the first thing they may concern is the scope of the Aspect J and how weaving the Aspect J into their current application like JSP, Servlet, Java application and also the compatibility with the IDE like Eclipse. The book first introduce these things to give a outlook of the ability of the Aspect J and then it introduce the main concern about capturing join points for the weaving the Aspect J to the application. However, it may be not easy to understand how the capturing join points can be used to solve the programming problem before you read the chapter 17 – 23 which about the application of the Aspect J. In 17 to 19 chapter it show how to use Aspect J to implement the common design pattern. In the final chapter it introduce the Aspect oriented design pattern and you may get the concept about AOP in this chapter
I suggest that the reader may skimming the chapter 17 – 23 first to get the outlook about the concept of AOP and solving problems by AOP.
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