Core Spring AOP interfaces, built on AOP Alliance AOP interoperability interfaces.
Any AOP Alliance MethodInterceptor is usable in Spring.
Spring AOP also offers:
- Introduction support
- A Pointcut abstraction, supporting "static" pointcuts
(class and method-based) and "dynamic" pointcuts (also considering method arguments).
There are currently no AOP Alliance interfaces for pointcuts.
- A full range of advice types, including around, before, after returning and throws advice.
- Extensibility allowing arbitrary custom advice types to
be plugged in without modifying the core framework.
Spring AOP can be used programmatically or (preferably)
integrated with the Spring IoC container.