AOP - Aspect oriented programming

[[NL]Pur]

I've recently about  the existence of 'Aspect oriented programming',

Since there lots of programmers here,,

Could someone explain to me what it exactly is. Is this a technique extending OOP or the new standard of the future ?

[[NL]Pur]

so nobody heard of this before ? :(

[NotRabidWombat]

It is the next level up above OOP. It allows you to abstract the global design of your software and modify collections (member function, properties, etc) as if they were data.

An excellent example is logging. Logging helps developers trace and debug code. BUT a logging object must be included in every other object. This adds a lot of tedious coding and creates heavy maintance (what if you want to change your logging OR what if you make a mistake).
So AOP lets you say: put this line of code at the beginning and end of every public member function. Enter this into your weaver with your source and viola, you have added the intertwined code.

I think there are some prototype languages for Java called HyperJ and AspectJ.

-NotRabidWombat