Using Aspects to Autonomic-Enable Legacy Applications

By Brian Temple
2005-05-13

Resources

• Download AspectJ and AJDT from eclipse.org.

• Download the Generic Log Adapter and the Log and Trace Analyzer from the IBM Autonomic Computing Toolkit.

• The Autonomic computing technology zone provides more information on the Autonomic Computing Toolkit components used in this article.

• " Standardize messages with the Common Base Event model" (developerWorks, February 2004) describes the Common Base Event format in detail.

• Understanding the Common Base Events Specification V1.0.1 gives the official specification for the Common Base Event format.

• " Generate Common Base Events from within a Java application" (developerWorks, February 2005) explains in detail how the example code creates native Common Base Even.

Tutorial Pages:
» Using Aspects to autonomic-enable legacy applications
» Introduction
» Example legacy application
» Incorporating Aspects
» An example Aspect framework to generate Common Base Events
» How to use and extend the example Aspect framework
» Next steps
» Resources

First published by IBM DeveloperWorks

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