What is best way to learn Spring AOP or AOP in general?

Question

Hi,

I have got experience working in Spring framework, but i find it very difficult to understand the basics of Spring AOP or AOP in general. Could you guys suggest me some good online tutorials/books you have come across to learn it.

-Snehal

Answer 1

I learned by reading AspectJ Documentation.

• Getting Started
• AspectJ Programming Guide

I've found that these docs prepared me well enough to dive into Spring AOP without too much of a fuss.

Answer 2

Ramnivas Laddad's book is very good indeed.

Answer 3

Here's a tutorial that just appeared on DZone:

http://java.dzone.com/articles/introduction-spring-aop

Also, I definitely won't claim that this is the best way to learn Spring AOP, but I wrote a short article showing how to use Spring AOP (with AspectJ annotations) to cause method calls to execute on a separate thread:

http://wheelersoftware.com/articles/spring-javamail-aop.html

Also as duffymo said, Ramnivas Laddad's book is a good starting point.