Define aspects using Annotation

Suppose in your bank application, you want to generate log for a money transfer service for auditing and tracking to understand customers' behaviors. A business never succeeds without understanding its customers. Whenever you will think about it from the perspective of a business, an auditing is required but isn't central to the function of the business itself; it's a separate concern. Therefore, it makes sense to define the auditing as an aspect that's applied to a transfer service. Let's see the following code which shows the Auditing class that defines the aspects for this concern:

    package com.packt.patterninspring.chapter6.bankapp.aspect; 
 
    import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.AfterReturning; 
    import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.AfterThrowing; 
    import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Aspect; 
    import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Before; 
 
    @Aspect 
    public class Auditing { 
 
      //Before transfer service 
      @Before("execution(* com.packt.patterninspring.chapter6.bankapp.
      service.TransferService.transfer(..))")  
      public void validate(){ 
        System.out.println("bank validate your credentials before 
        amount transferring"); 
      } 
 
      //Before transfer service 
      @Before("execution(* com.packt.patterninspring.chapter6.bankapp.
      service.TransferService.transfer(..))")  
      public void transferInstantiate(){ 
        System.out.println("bank instantiate your amount 
        transferring"); 
      } 
 
      //After transfer service 
      @AfterReturning("execution(* com.packt.patterninspring.chapter6.
      bankapp.service.TransferService.transfer(..))") 
      public void success(){ 
        System.out.println("bank successfully transferred amount"); 
      } 
 
      //After failed transfer service 
      @AfterThrowing("execution(* com.packt.patterninspring.chapter6.
      bankapp.service.TransferService.transfer(..))") 
      public void rollback() { 
        System.out.println("bank rolled back your transferred amount"); 
      } 
    } 

As you can see how the Auditing class is annotated with @Aspect annotation. It means this class is not just Spring bean, it is an aspect of the application. And Auditing class has some methods, these are advices and define some logic within these methods. As we know that before beginning to transfer amount from an account to another, bank will validate (validate ()) the use credentials and after that instantiate (transferInstantiate()) this service. After successful validation (success ()) amount is transferred and the bank audits it. But if the amount transferring fails in any case, then the bank should roll back (rollback ()) that amount.

As you can see, all methods of Auditing aspects are annotated with advice annotations to indicate when those methods should be called. Spring AOP provides five type advice annotations for defining advice. Let's see in the following table:

 

Let's see the implementation of advices and how these work in the application.