Table Of ContentSpring 2.5 Aspect-Oriented
Programming
Create dynamic, feature-rich, and robust enterprise
applications using the Spring framework
Massimiliano Dessì
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
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Spring 2.5 Aspect-Oriented Programming
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About the Author
Massimiliano Dessì iiss aann eexxppeerriieenncceedd ��aavvaa ddeevveellooppeerr wwhhoo ssttaarrtteedd ddeevveellooppiinngg ��EEEE
applications in 2000. In 2004 he discovered the Spring Framework 1.0, and since then
he has been one of its most enthusiastic users.
Massimiliano is specialized in design and development of enterprise Web-based
applications, such as portals, content management systems and banking applications.
�EE technology and applied agile methodologies like eXtreme Programming are his
core skills. He currently works as a Software Architect and Engineer for Sourcesense
(www.sourcesense.com), one of the leading European Open Source System
Integrators. He have a strong background as a community supporter and open-
source software contributor. He's also an active technical writer, author of various
articles, publications, and reviews availables on http://www.jugsardegna.org/
vqwiki/jsp/Wiki?MassimilianoDessi and on http://wiki.java.net/bin/
view/People/MassimilianoDessi.
Massimiliano also speaks regurarly at Users Groups conferences (including �ava
Users Groups, Spring Framework User Group, �avaday, and Linux Users Groups).
He is one of the founders of �ava User Group Sardinia (http://www.jugsardegna.
org), as well as the founder of "Spring Framework Italian User Group", "�etspeed
Italian user Group" and "Groovy Italian User Group".
He maintains a personal weblog at: http://jroller.com/page/desmax.
Massimiliano lives in Cagliari, Sardinia with his family.
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About the Reviewer
Stefano Sanna is senior engineer and �ava ME Tech Lead at Beeweeb Technologies
(Rome), where his activities are focused on mobile multimedia applications (�ME,
iPhone, Android). His experience on �ava for mobile devices began in 1999 on a
Psion handheld computer. He is author of the Italian book "�ava Micro Edition",
targeted on developing network-oriented applications for mobile phones and
published by Hoepli (Nov 2007). He has written more than 50 technical articles on
�ava ME, mobile technologies, and Linux. He has presented more than 30 seminars
on the same topics, including Sun SPOTs and Arduino sensor networks. Stefano
supports some Italian communities: �UG Sardegna, �ava Mobile Developers Forum,
and �ava Italian Association. Before joining Beeweeb, he was a software engineer at
CRS4 (Sardinia) in the Network Distributed Applications group, where he worked
on multimodal applications and mobile cartography. He regularly writes about
mobile computing, �ava, embedded systems, and good Italian food on his blog:
http://www.gerdavax.it.
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This book is dedicated to my wife Monica and my children Michele, Mattia and Chiara
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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: Understanding AOP Concepts 7
Limits of object-oriented programming 8
Code scattering 13
Code tangling 14
The AOP solution 16
What Spring provides in terms of AOP 19
Programmatic way 20
Before advice 20
After returning advice 21
Around advice 23
After throwing advice 24
The old Spring XML way 26
AOP with IoC in Spring 2.5 28
AspectJ annotations 28
Before advice 29
After returning advice 30
Around advice 31
After (finally) advice 32
After throwing advice 33
Schema-based configuration 35
Before advice 35
After advice 36
After returning advice 37
After throwing advice 37
Around advice 39
Summary 40
Chapter 2: Spring AOP Components 41
Aspect 41
Pointcut 41
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Description:Develop real-world applications using the AOP features of the Spring framework. If you are a Java software architect, engineer, or developer and want to be able to write applications in a more modular and concise way by using Spring, then you need this book. Readers need basic knowledge of Spring an
