In this chapter, we looked at the Spring AOP module. AOP is a powerful programming paradigm that complements object-oriented programming. AOP helps to decouple crosscutting concerns from business logic and helps us to focus only on business logic when working on business requirements. Decoupled crosscutting concerns help to implement the reusable code.
We learned about AOP concepts, its terminologies, and how to implement advice. We learned about proxies and how Spring AOP is implemented using the proxy pattern. We learned best practices to be followed while working on Spring AOP to achieve better quality and performance.
In the next chapter, we will learn about Spring MVC. Spring Web MVC provides a web framework that is based on MVC. Using Spring Web MVC as a web framework enables us to develop loosely-coupled web applications with the benefit of writing test cases without...