Fancy Bread

Over the past year, I have dabbled more and more with leveraging AOP in my applications,primarily for logging and caching. Recently, I needed to analyze a system for performance and determined that for some operations, there were several points where third party integrations are managed. These points slowed the request lifecyle dramatically and were targeted to be re-written using cfthread. I love a good refactoring challenge as much as the next guy, but I also love a good abstraction. Thus, the AsynchronousAroundAdvice was born.

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Logging is one of the classic cross-cutting concerns one hears about when discussing Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP). Other common aspects are caching, security and data transformation. Over the past year, I've begun to apply AOP with ColdSpring to my application design. I was completely confused about just what was going on with AOP, when I first looked at it, then, by degrees, I came to realize that it is actually pretty simple if you can focus on the basics without trying to absorb all the terms associated with AOP. With the release of ColdSpring 1.2, Brian Kotek wrote an excellent quickstart guide, that I recommend (especially for the AOP tutorial which I borrow heavily from for this example). I'll briefly describe how I wrapped my head around the concept.

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