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Introducing Spring AOP

Besides Dependency Injection (DI), another core feature that the Spring Framework brings to the developer community is Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP). Although it used to be difficult to learn, understand, and implement, thanks to Spring’s intensive use of AOP within the framework and a simplified AOP programming model that Spring provides, AOP has become a technique that developers use on day-to-day development, especially when developing Spring-based applications. AOP is often referred to as a tool for implementing crosscutting concerns. When you “cut through” the unfamiliar terminology, you use AOP for modularizing individual pieces of logic, known as concerns, and you apply these concerns to many ...