Demystifying Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) in Java: A Practical Introduction
If you’ve been coding in Java for a while, you’ve likely faced a situation where you needed to perform cross-cutting tasks—like logging, caching, or security checks—across multiple parts of your application. Wouldn’t it be nice to handle these tasks elegantly, without cluttering your core business logic? Enter Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP). In this post, we’ll dive into the basics of AOP in Java and show you how to use it with a practical example: automatically invalidating a cache after saving a user. Let’s go! ...