Introduction to Spring's Aspect Oriented Programming(AOP)

One of the major features available in the Spring Distribution is the provision for separating the cross-cutting concerns in an Application through the means of Aspect Oriented Programming. Aspect Oriented Programming is sensibly new and it is not a replacement for Object Oriented Programming. In fact, AOP is another way of organizing your Program Structure. This first section of this article looks into the various terminologies that are commonly used in the AOP Environment. Then it moves into the support that is available in the Spring API for embedding Aspects into an Application . Finally the article concludes by giving a Sample Application.read full article