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Spring 2.5 Aspect Oriented Programming

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Spring 2.5 Aspect Oriented Programming

Overview of this book

Developing powerful web applications with clean, manageable code makes the maintenance process much easier. Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) is the easiest and quickest way to achieve such results. Spring is the only Java framework to offer AOP features. The combined power of Spring and AOP gives a powerful and flexible platform to develop and maintain feature-rich web applications quickly. This book will help you to write clean, manageable code for your Java applications quickly, utilizing the combined power of Spring and AOP. You will master the concepts of AOP by developing several real-life AOP-based applications with the Spring Framework, implementing the basic components of Spring AOP: Advice, Joinpoint, Pointcut, and Advisor. This book will teach you everything you need to know to use AOP with Spring. It starts by explaining the AOP features of Spring and then moves ahead with configuring Spring AOP and using its core classes, with lot of examples. It moves on to explain the AspectJ support in Spring. Then you will develop a three-layered example web application designed with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and built with Test-Driven Development methodology using the full potential of AOP for security, concurrency, caching, and transactions.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary


In this chapter, we gave a general view of the integration between AspectJ and Spring using the powerful syntax of joinpont definition, both through annotations and XML configuration.

We saw how AspectJ, through annotations, makes the work of defining the application of advices easier. We have much shorter configuration files, since we don't have to configure each AOP component in the classic way.

The other option is the configuration with AspectJ through XML file, which is far simpler compared to the classic version and becomes nearly compulsory if we use a JDK previous to 1.5, which is the one that supports annotations.

In the last part, I gave some advice to solve conflicts in the priorities of execution, and about the possible uses of the different configuration methods.