Title: Why Should You Care About Aspect-Oriented Programming?

Speaker:
Karl Lieberherr

A common problem in software is that programs are a tangled
artifact of several design concerns. This makes them hard
to understand and maintain.

In this talk we will present an approach to programming in the
AspectJ programming language that allows many (not all) concerns
to be expressed loosely coupled rather than tangled together with
other concerns. This leads to programs that are
less tangled and that are easier to understand and maintain.
AspectJ is currently the most popular aspect-oriented programming 
(AOP) language.

The Inventor's Paradox is about
problem solutions becoming easier when we solve more
general problems and it plays an interesting role in
mathematics and in AOP. 
We apply the Inventor's Paradox
to programming and show that programming becomes easier if
we write the programs for generalized object/program
structures rather than specific object/program structures.

The presentation will be sprinkled with AspectJ examples
that illustrate the concepts.