April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
246 pages
6h 11m
English
A pattern is a filter criteria to match possible join-points. It tells Spring AOP what to match. Patterns are generally written within brackets, just after the PCD. It's a kind of regular expression in AOP to select the desired join-point.
Spring AOP supports only method-level join-points, and patterns are used to choose specific methods of the target object. A pattern consists of the following expressions in the same order: