[whartung]

I appreciate the potential power of AOP, but I'm grateful I never had to use it directly.

Rather, I got to rely on the special handling within, notably at the time, the Java JEE ecosystem. It was not "generic" AOP by any means, it was specialized. But I can say that what they did support was more than enough for my applications. I never felt I could use a more flexible framework.

I know some folks that did, the embraced it whole hog, and really got some power out of it. AOP could be used to make some very powerful constructs, especially adding dynamic behaviors to existing systems.

But that was simply never something I really needed in my Java work.