The current application is directed to implementation of crosscutting functionalities, including code instrumentation, error logging, performance monitoring and performance-data logging, and other such crosscutting functionalities. These crosscutting functionalities generally violate, or run counter to, modem code-development strategies and programming-language features that seek to partition logic into hierarchically organized compartments and modules with related functionalities, attribute values, and other common features. In current client/server environments, for certain types of programs distributed by a server to client computers, including programs embedded in files that specify web pages, cross-cutting functionality is encoded in advice included with the programs and distributed to the client computers, which weave the advice into programs prior to or during client-side interpretation of the programs. The current application is directed to methods and systems that replace client-side weaving of advice into programs by weaving of the advice into the programs by the server computer prior to distribution of the program to the client.