Technically Works

I used to think aspect oriented programming (AOP) is not a very useful idea because quite often it only saves few keystrokes but requires a massive configuration file. I only came to realise the true value of AOP recently when we have to convert 4+ million lines of legacy COBOL code to .NET with Microfocus’ Visual COBOL compiler. Manually adding exception handling and logging code to these existing COBOL subroutines will not only take a lot of time but also makes code merging task much harder later. I started experimenting with the policy injection block in the Enterprise Library to see if it will make this job simpler. I tried to google for AOP and Enterprise Library tutorials but I found most tutorials on the web are either old (most were done using Enterprise Library 3) or over-complicated. Especially many of them use the Enterprise Library Logging Block to demonstrate the policy injection concept, which requires lots of configurations itself. The policy injection in Enterprise