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"A refreshingly new approach toward improving use-case modeling by fortifying it with aspect orientation." --Ramnivas Laddad, author of AspectJ in Action "Since the 1980s, use cases have been a way to bring users into software design, but translating use cases into software has been an art, at best, because user goods often don't respect code boundaries. Now that aspect-oriented programming (AOP) can express crosscutting concerns directly in code, the man who developed use cases has proposed step-by-step methods for recognizing crosscutting concerns in use cases and writing the code in separate modules. If these methods are at all fruitful in your design and development practice, they will make a big difference in software quality for developers and users alike. --Wes Isberg, AspectJ team member"This book not only provides ideas and examples of what aspect-oriented software development is but how it can be utilized in a real development project." --MichaelWard, ThoughtWorks, Inc."No system has ever been designed from scratch perfectly; every system is composed of features layered in top of features that accumulate over time.Conventional design techniques do not handle this well, and over time the integrity of most systems degrades as a result. For the first time, here is a set of techniques that facilitates composition of behavior that not only allows systems to be defined in terms of layered functionality but composition is at the very heart of the approach. This book is an important advance in modern methodology and is certain to influence the direction of software engineering in the next decade, just as Object-Oriented Software Engineering influenced the last." --Kurt Bittner, IBM Corporation"Use cases are an excellent means to capture system requirements and drive a user-centric view of system development and testing. This book offers a comprehensive guide on explicit use-case-driven development from early requirements modeling to design and implementation. It provides a simple yet rich set of guidelines to realize use-case models using aspect-oriented design and programming. It is a valuable resource to researchers and practitioners alike." --Dr. Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, U.K., and author of Aspect-Oriented Database Systems "AOSD is important technology that will help developers produce better systems.Unfortunately, it has not been obvious how to integrate AOSD across a project's lifecycle. This book shatters that barrier, providing concrete examples on how to use AOSD from requirements analysis through testing." --Charles B. Haley, research fellow, The Open University, U.K. Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a revolutionary new way to think about software engineering. AOP was introduced to address crosscutting concerns such as security, logging, persistence, debugging, tracing, distribution, performance monitoring, and exception handling in a more effective manner. Unlike conventional development techniques, which scatter the implementation of each concern into multiple classes, aspect-oriented programming localizes them. Aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) uses this approach to create a better modularity for functional and nonfunctional requirements, platform specifics, and more, allowing you to build more understandable systems that are easier to configure and extend to meet the evolving needs of stakeholders.In this highly anticipated new book, Ivar Jacobson and Pan-Wei Ng demonstrate how to apply use cases--a mature and systematic approach to focusing on stakeholder concerns--and aspect-orientation in building robust and extensible systems. Throughout the book, the authors employ a single, real-world example of a hotel management information system to make the described theories and practices concrete and understandable. The authors show how to identify, design, implement, test, and refactor use-case modules, as well as extend them. They also demonstrate how to design use-case modules with the Unified Modeling Language (UML)--emphasizing enhancements made in UML 2.0--and how to achieve use-case modularity using aspect technologies, notably AspectJ.Key topics include *Making the case for use cases and aspects *Capturing and modeling concerns with use cases *Keeping concerns separate with use-case modules *Modeling use-cases slices and aspects using the newest extensions to the UML notation *Applying use cases and aspects in projects Whatever your level of experience with aspect-oriented programming, Aspect-Oriented Software Development with Use Cases will teach you how to develop better software by embracing the paradigm shift to AOSD.

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"A refreshingly new approach toward improving use-case modeling by fortifying it with aspect orientation."

- Ramnivas Laddad, author of AspectJ in Action "Since the 1980s, use cases have been a way to bring users into software design, but translating use cases into software has been an art, at best, because user goods often don't respect code boundaries. Now that aspect-oriented programming (AOP) can express crosscutting concerns directly in code, the man who developed use cases has proposed step-by-step methods for recognizing crosscutting concerns in use cases and writing the code in separate modules. If these methods are at all fruitful in your design and development practice, they will make a big difference in software quality for developers and users alike.

- Wes Isberg, AspectJ team member"This book not only provides ideas and examples of what aspect-oriented software development is but how it can be utilized in a real development project."

- MichaelWard, ThoughtWorks, Inc. "No system has ever been designed from scratch perfectly; every system is composed of features layered in top of features that accumulate over time. Conventional design techniques do not handle this well, and over time the integrity of most systems degrades as a result. For the first time, here is a set of techniques that facilitates composition of behavior that not only allows systems to be defined in terms of layered functionality but composition is at the very heart of the approach. This book is an important advance in modern methodology and is certain to influence the direction of software engineering in the next decade, just as Object-Oriented Software Engineering influenced the last."

- Kurt Bittner, IBM Corporation "Use cases are an excellent means to capture system requirements and drive a user-centric view of system development and testing. This book offers a comprehensive guide on explicit use-case-driven development from early requirements modeling to design and implementation. It provides a simple yet rich set of guidelines to realize use-case models using aspect-oriented design and programming. It is a valuable resource to researchers and practitioners alike."

- Dr. Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, U.K., and author of Aspect-Oriented Database Systems "AOSD is important technology that will help developers produce better systems. Unfortunately, it has not been obvious how to integrate AOSD across a project's lifecycle. This book shatters that barrier, providing concrete examples on how to use AOSD from requirements analysis through testing."

- Charles B. Haley, research fellow, The Open University, U.K.

Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a revolutionary new way to think about software engineering. AOP was introduced to address crosscutting concerns such as security, logging, persistence, debugging, tracing, distribution, performance monitoring, and exception handling in a more effective manner. Unlike conventional development techniques, which scatter the implementation of each concern into multiple classes, aspect-oriented programming localizes them.

Aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) uses this approach to create a better modularity for functional and nonfunctional requirements, platform specifics, and more, allowing you to build more understandable systems that are easier to configure and extend to meet the evolving needs of stakeholders.

In this highly anticipated new book, Ivar Jacobson and Pan-Wei Ng demonstrate how to apply use cases - a mature and systematic approach to focusing on stakeholder concerns - and aspect-orientation in building robust and extensible systems. Throughout the book, the authors employ a single, real-world example of a hotel management information system to make the described theories and practices concrete and understandable.

The authors show how to identify, design, implement, test, and refactor use-case modules, as well as extend them. They also demonstrate how to design use-case modules with the Unified Modeling Language (UML) - emphasizing enhancements made in UML 2.0 - and how to achieve use-case modularity using aspect technologies, notably AspectJ.

Key topics include

  • Making the case for use cases and aspects
  • Capturing and modeling concerns with use cases
  • Keeping concerns separate with use-case modules
  • Modeling use-cases slices and aspects using the newest extensions to the UML notation
  • Applying use cases and aspects in projects

Whatever your level of experience with aspect-oriented programming, Aspect-Oriented Software Development with Use Cases will teach you how to develop better software by embracing the paradigm shift to AOSD.

See all Editorial Reviews


Product Details

  • Paperback: 464 pages
  • Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (January 9, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0321268881
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321268884
  • Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.1 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #606,378 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)


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5.0 out of 5 stars In Absentia: Unfortunate Sign of the Times, November 27, 2005
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No one has reviewed this?? This is a great book. Jacobson describes it as the result of a kind of epiphanal realization that AOP could solve an inherent problem in use case design. This is how the book hooked me: rather than just showing AOP as a series of stunts, or explaining it w/the usual little examples (logging, exceptions, etc.), this book starts w/the strategic implications and then works down to the tactical. The basic premise is that the so called separation of concerns is always followed by a required recomposition of said concerns and that aspects provide a means of recomposing w/out introducing 'leaks' and the like.

It's pathetic that no one is reading this book. Ballmer was mooning last week about how he's going to erase Rational (and with it the UML). Jacobson and use cases are the best part of the UML and one of the great things about this book is it opens the door to a conception of a different design approach that short circuits some of the flab from the RUP req/spec cycle (which, when trying to be iterative, tends instead toward rapid repeat waterfall).

Despite the apparent dearth of readership, I predict this book will be seen as one of the most important of this decade.
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4.0 out of 5 stars how use cases can lead to aspect oriented coding, April 28, 2006
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Jacobson and Ng present a detailed exposition of what aspect oriented programming means. As implemented in the AspectJ language, an extension to Java for expressly this purpose. They explain that object oriented programming has a conceptual limitation. Indeed, it is good to separate code into components using OO. But in general you have M concerns and N components, where M>N. Sometimes, M>>N. So if you imagine an M x N matrix, then you can easily see how entanglement arises. A given component may have code from multiple concerns. Which makes it harder to implement and maintain.

The authors describe how if you start at the design level, with use cases, that these can effectively be considered concerns. Then, taking these use cases and using AspectJ, you can design and write code that keeps the use cases/concerns separate as much as possible. While being able to compose code for several concerns when necessary. Use cases are of course widely used in many design processes. An attraction of this book is in showing how starting with the familiarity of use cases, you can logically understand and implement an aspect oriented coding.

The book is primarily written at the design level. While some small code fragments are offered as examples, you should have some earlier knowledge of AspectJ. The book is not, per se, a syntax manual on the latter.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Finally I know what Aspect Programming is for, March 25, 2007
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Nothing more to say. Clear explanation that Aspect Programming fills the gap in software engineering, and that this it is more than just fancy logging mechanism. But this book makes also clear that Aspect Programming must be used from very early stages of software design process, but not simply as add-on to object oriented design. Worth to read, despite whether you will use Aspect Programming or not. If not, you will know the limitation of Object Oriented paradigm. If yes, you will know how to use Aspect programming right
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5.0 out of 5 stars why is everything a use case ;)
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