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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)

Creating proxies programmatically


In some situations it could be necessary to create proxies programmatically (for example in test classes), in the classic manner or with classes annotated with "@Aspect".

ClassicProxy

To see a proxy in action, we will use as example class a class that implements a Command Pattern. A Command Pattern is used when a client class doesn't know the details about an implementation of the called class that executes some logic.

package org.springaop.chapter.three.proxy;
public interface Command {
public void execute();
}

We define an interface that implements the Command Pattern (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_pattern).

package org.springaop.chapter.three.proxy;
public class CommandImpl implements Command{
public void execute(){
System.out.println(label);
}
private final String label = "Goooo !";
}

We create a class that implements the interface.

package org.springaop.chapter.three.proxy;
public class BeforeAdviceProxyExample implements MethodBeforeAdvice{
public...