Separation of Concerns in Web Service Implementations (O'ReillyNet) [LWN.net]

Tieu Luu discusses the separation of concerns in web service implementations in an O'Reilly article. "Separation of concerns is a core principle of Service-Oriented Architectures. Unfortunately, this principle is often lost when it comes to the implementations of SOA services. All too often we see a big implementation class with multiple concerns such as security, transaction management, and logging all mixed in with the business logic. Using the Spring Framework and principles of Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP), we can drive the separation of concerns down into the implementation of services. In this article, we show how to develop a Web service using Apache Axis and Spring, and secure it with Acegi Security--all while keeping the concerns nicely separated."

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