Spring Cookbook

Chapter 12. Using Aspect-oriented Programming

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Creating a Spring AOP aspect class
• Measuring the execution time of methods using an around advice
• Logging method arguments using a before advice
• Logging methods' return values using an after-returning advice
• Logging exceptions using an after-throwing advice
• Using an after advice to clean up resources
• Making a class implement an interface at runtime using an introduction
• Setting the execution order of the aspects

Introduction

Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is about inserting and executing, at runtime, extra pieces of code at various points of the normal execution flow of a program. In AOP terminology, these pieces of code are methods that are called advices ...