Pointcut nomenclature

Like I said in my post about Core AOP Concepts, Pointcut represent:

An expression that select one or more joint points. In other words, pointcut select joint point that will be advised by an aspect and when the application reaches a join point, advice on that join point may run.

Now, I’ll explain how pointcut actually works and how we can define it.
For the purpose of my post, consider that I use AOP annotations.

Important

Protected and private methods are not intercepted; pointcut will be matched against public methods only!

Pointcut have two important parts that we’ll look in the next points.
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What is AOP Weaving?

It’s the process of inserting aspects logic into the application code at a specific jointpoint.

• Compile time weaving
• Runtime weaving

What about Spring AOP!!

Spring AOP use Runtime weaving and is based on proxies. Spring can generate two kind of proxy:

• JDK Dynamic Proxy (java.lang.reflect.Proxy)
• CGLIB proxy

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