Spring 5 Design Patterns

Core AOP terminology and concepts

As with other technologies, AOP has its own vocabularies. Let's start to learn some core AOP concepts and terminology. Spring used the AOP paradigm for the Spring AOP module. But unfortunately, terms used in the Spring AOP Framework are Spring-specific. These terms are used to describe AOP modules and features, but these aren't intuitive. In spite of this, these terms are used in order to understand AOP. Without an understanding of the AOP idiom you will not be able to understand AOP functionality. Basically, AOP is defined in terms of advice, pointcuts, and join points. Let's see the following figure that illustrates about the core AOP concepts and how they are tied together in the framework:

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