Spring Boot 3 Crash Course Part 7: Aspect Oriented Programming

Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a programming paradigm that aims to increase modularity by allowing the separation of cross-cutting concerns. In simpler terms, instead of adding the code for logging into the class method itself, we will separate it. Think of it like the layers of an onion.

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Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP)
3. Why AOP Over Inheritance?
4. Understanding AOP Pitfalls
5. Getting Started with AOP in Spring Boot
6. Terminology Used in AOP
7. Coding a Simple App
8. Adding AOP to Our Users App
9. Pointcuts in More Detail
10. Conclusion

Pre-requisites:

Good grasp of Spring and Spring Boot basics

What is an Aspect?

An aspect is just a particular behaviour that needs to be present in all layers of your application. For example, a typical web application might have a web, business and data layers. Logging needs to be present for all these…