The first thing in Spring AOP is to decide on and define the aspects. In XML-based configuration, an aspect is conceptualized as a simple Java class that you need to declare as a bean definition in a Spring application context (XML) file. The <aop:aspect> element is used to define an aspect:
<aop:config> <aop:aspect id="myLoggin" ref="loggingAspect"></aop:aspect> </aop:config> <bean id="loggingAspect" class="com.packet.spring.aop.aspects.LogginAspect"> </bean>
Since an aspect is a form of Java class, it can be defined as a normal Spring bean, and then can be configured with the ref attribute of the <aop:aspect> element. The state and behavior is associated with fields and methods of the aspect class, while the point-cut ...
