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I have to confess, I still find AOP a bit scary. I think it's a matter of trust, because it's the same feeling I used to get working with managed objects like EJBs or MBeans. You have to trust your environment to provide the functionality you want. I still have a hard time trusting an AOP system to really get my aspects in the process flow reliably. This isn't really a fault of any AOP system, it's just the same uneasy feeling I had the first time I brought up an EJB and had to trust that the container really got the security and transactions right. Now it's a non-issue. I just trust that the app server is doing it's job.

I even had the same lack of trust of the JavaVM when I first started back in thearly days. I certainly didn't trust garbage collection and I was paranoid that I might get null pointer when I tried to create a new object.

All things considered, I guess a little nervousness isn't that bad of a thing. It means there's something new and exciting there. Perhaps someday soon we will all just trust AOP to be there and work, and I'll be off worrying about something else.