Spring Framework AspectJ Annotations

Spring Framework AspectJ Annotations

For defining aspects, Spring leverages the set of annotations
provided by AspectJ.

Annotation
Use
Description

@Aspect Type Declares a class to be an aspect.

@After Method Declares a method to be called after a
pointcut completes.

@AfterReturning Method Declares a method to be called after a
pointcut returns successfully.

@AfterThrowing Method Declares a method to be called after a
pointcut throws an exception.


@Around Method Declares a method that will wrap the
pointcut.


@Before Method Declares a method to be called before
proceeding to the pointcut.

@DeclareParents Static Field Declares that matching types should be
given new parents—that is, it introduces new
functionality into matching types.

@Pointcut Method Declares an empty method as a pointcut
placeholder method.