The SetPoint Project: the University of Buenos Aires goes AOP!
Reading Clarin today I came across this article that caught my attention. It seems that the University of Buenos Aires is leading the development of Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) for the .NET Platform! The project is called SetPoint and has received a strong financial prize from Microsoft.
I realize that I have been very lucky in my programming career; when working at SoftPlumbers, back in 2002/2003, I was involved in the design of an application framework based in the AOP capabilities of .NET: the DataServices project. I will soon post here an article with information about it, since it uses some of the concepts of AOP (not all, of course). Very interesting and powerful.
AOP is maybe the next big thing in the development world; you should keep an eye on it. As many good things in the computing world, it has been created in the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC); AOP was created by a team of PARC scientists led by Gregor Kiczales.
Links on AOP:
- The original paper on AOP by Gregor Kiczales
(you can download a local copy if the remote link is not accesible)
- The official AOP page
- AspectJ: the project that brings AOP to Java
- An article about AOP on O'Reilly's OnJava website
- An article about AOP on MSDN
- Un articulo en español de Nicolás Kicillof, uno de los responsables del proyecto SetPoint.
Links about the SetPoint project: