Spring AOP - What is AOP? | Andrewsy's Space

What is AOP?, AOP stand for Aspect Oriented Programming. It’s very important module for Spring framework. In the enterprise level application programming we used to add different types of services to our application at runtime automatically, like logging, email, transaction, authentication services. These actions we called cross-cutting functionalities. AOP do this job.

Let’s see a normal instance:

public class MyLogicClass
{
	public void logicOne() {
		//There is my logic for one.

		//Call Authentication Service 
		//Call Logging Service
		//Call Transcation Service
		//Call Email Service
	}

	public void logicTwo() {
		//There is my logic for two.

		//Call Authentication Service 
		//Call Logging Service
		//Call Transcation Service
		//Call Email Service
	}
}

In above codes, we have a class called MyLogicClass, in this class there are two logic methods, and both them call authentication, logging, transaction, email services. We called these service are cross-cutting functionalities. So there are some problems, one is these cross-cutting functionalities increase the class size. Second is we need changed this class and recompile, re-deploy it again when we changed the services.

So how to overcome these problems, can we separate the services and our logic client? Yep, we can do this in Spring AOP, adding these cross-cutting functionalities at runtime don’t need to write them in the logic codes.

So if we use AOP, our logic class will be like this:

public class MyLogicClass
{
	public void logicOne() {
		//There is my logic for one.
		
		//Services will be injected here automatically at runtime, but in the codebase there is nothing
	}

	public void logicTwo() {
		//There is my logic for two.

		//Services will be injected here automatically at runtime, but in the codebase there is nothing
	}
}

In above codes, we separate the business logic and the services, we call this process of separation as AOP. So Using AOP business logic and cross-cutting functionalities are implemented separately and executed at runtime as combine automatically.