Spring Aspect Oriented Programming

The Spring framework has many features for aspect orientation. I do not define here the usual concepts of aspect oriented programming: join points, cut points, advice, weaving... A few important aspects:

• the weaving process of the Spring framework is performed at runtime.
• the Spring framework uses proxies to implement the aspect orientation. These proxies come in two flavors, either a JDK dynamic Proxy (?) or a CGLIB proxy (see the web site of CGLIB for this).
• no field point cut (use aspectJ for this)
• the spring AOP does not implement the complete AOP, but mainly the most important aspects of AOP needed for the Inversion of Control approach of the spring framework for enterprise applications