concept compile - time weaving in category dependency injection

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You’ll find tools, frameworks, and architectural styles that enable AOP. In this chapter, we’ll discuss the most ideal form of AOP. The next chapter will discuss dynamic Interception and compile-time weaving as tool-based forms of AOP. These are the three major methods of AOP.¹  Table 10.1 lists the methods we’ll discuss, with a few of the major advantages and disadvantages of each.

Compile-time weaving is the opposite of DI, and we consider it to be an anti-pattern. We feel it’s important, however, to include a discussion on compile-time weaving, because it’s a well-known form of AOP, and we want to make it clear that it isn’t a viable alternative to DI.

Figure 11.3 Compile-time weaving process