Summary

In this chapter, we concluded our discussion on AOP. We looked at the advanced options for pointcutting, as well as how to extend the set of interfaces implemented by an object using introductions. A large part of this chapter focused on using Spring framework services to configure AOP declaratively, thus avoiding the need to hardcode AOP proxy construction logic into your code. We spent some time looking at how Spring and AspectJ are integrated to allow you to use the added power of AspectJ without losing any of the flexibility of Spring. Finally, we looked at how we can use AOP to solve an application-specific problem in the sample application.

In the next chapter, we move on to a completely different topic—how we can use Spring's JDBC support to radically simplify the creation of JDBC-based data access code.