<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;">In this spring aop before advice example based on XML configuration, we learn how to use Spring AOP before advice using <;aop:before/>; XML configuration. In Spring AOP Before Advice is that executes before a join point i.e Any methods configured as before advice always run immediately before the target methods which match the pointcut expression.</p>
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<p>Let&#8217;s create a simple spring application and add logging aspect to be invoked on based on pointcuts information passed in <;aop:before/>; xml configuration. This example is also available with Java configuration using AspectJ @Before annotation in the application <b><a href="https://dineshonjava.com/spring-aop-aspectj-before-annotation-advice-example/">Spring AOP AspectJ @Before Annotation Advice Example</a>.</b></p>
<h2><b>Configuring Spring AOP Before Advice using aop namespace <;aop:before/>; and <;aop:config>;</b></h2>
<p>In this example, we are using <;aop:*/>; namespace of XML configuration spring framework. We have to add aop namespace in the XML configuration file for application context for <;aop:before/>; advice in this application. Let&#8217;s see our aop configuration for before advice in this example.</p>
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<pre class="highlight"><;aop:config>; 
 <;aop:aspect ref="loggingAspect">; 
 <;!-- all public methods with any arguments of any type and any return type of all classes in the com.doj.aopapp.service package -->; 
 <;aop:pointcut expression="execution(* com.doj.aopapp.service.*.*(..))" id="logForAllMethods"/>; 
 <;!-- all public methods whose name are transfer() with taking three arguments of any type and any return type of all classes in the com.doj.aopapp.service package -->; 
 <;aop:pointcut expression="execution(* com.doj.aopapp.service.*.transfer(*,*,*))" id="logForAllTransfer"/>; 
 <;aop:before method="beforeAdviceForAllMethods" pointcut-ref="logForAllMethods"/>; 
 <;aop:before method="beforeAdviceForTransferMethods" pointcut-ref="logForAllTransfer"/>; 
 <;/aop:aspect>; 
<;/aop:config>; 
</pre>
<h2><b>Pointcut expressions</b></h2>
<p><b>1.</b> Following pointcut expression for before advice is valid for all public methods with any arguments of any type and any return type of all classes in the com.doj.aopapp.service package.</p>
<pre class="highlight"><;aop:pointcut expression="execution(* com.doj.aopapp.service.*.*(..))" id="logForAllMethods"/>; 
</pre>
<p><b>2. </b>Following pointcut expression for before advice is valid for all public methods whose name are transfer() with taking three arguments of any type and any return type of all classes in the com.doj.aopapp.service package.</p>
<pre class="highlight"><;aop:pointcut expression="execution(* com.doj.aopapp.service.*.transfer(*,*,*))" id="logForAllTransfer"/>; 
</pre>
<h2><b>Spring AOP Before Advice Example</b></h2>
<p>Let&#8217;s create an example for a before advice, using xml configuration using <;aop:before/>; namespace.</p>
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<pre class="highlight"><;properties>; 
 <;spring.version>;4.3.7.RELEASE<;/spring.version>; 
 <;aspectj.version>;1.8.9<;/aspectj.version>; 
 <;/properties>; 
 
 <;dependencies>; 
 <;dependency>; 
 <;groupId>;org.springframework<;/groupId>; 
 <;artifactId>;spring-context<;/artifactId>; 
 <;version>;${spring.version}<;/version>; 
 <;/dependency>; 
 <;dependency>; 
 <;groupId>;org.springframework<;/groupId>; 
 <;artifactId>;spring-context-support<;/artifactId>; 
 <;version>;${spring.version}<;/version>; 
 <;/dependency>; 
 <;dependency>; 
 <;groupId>;org.springframework<;/groupId>; 
 <;artifactId>;spring-aop<;/artifactId>; 
 <;version>;${spring.version}<;/version>; 
 <;/dependency>; 
 
 <;dependency>; 
 <;groupId>;org.aspectj<;/groupId>; 
 <;artifactId>;aspectjrt<;/artifactId>; 
 <;version>;${aspectj.version}<;/version>; 
 <;/dependency>; 
 <;dependency>; 
 <;groupId>;org.aspectj<;/groupId>; 
 <;artifactId>;aspectjweaver<;/artifactId>; 
 <;version>;${aspectj.version}<;/version>; 
 <;/dependency>; 
 <;/dependencies>; 
</pre>
<h3><b>ApplicationContext Configuration file based on XML Config </b></h3>
<p><b>applicationContext.xml</b></p>
<pre class="highlight"><;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>; 
<;beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" 
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
 xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop" 
 xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" 
 xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd 
 http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop.xsd 
 http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">; 
 
 <;aop:config>; 
 <;aop:aspect ref="loggingAspect">; 
 <;!-- all public methods with any arguments of any type and any return type of all classes in the com.doj.aopapp.service package -->; 
 <;aop:pointcut expression="execution(* com.doj.aopapp.service.*.*(..))" id="logForAllMethods"/>; 
 <;!-- all public methods whose name are transfer() with taking three arguments of any type and any return type of all classes in the com.doj.aopapp.service package -->; 
 <;aop:pointcut expression="execution(* com.doj.aopapp.service.*.transfer(*,*,*))" id="logForAllTransfer"/>; 
 <;aop:before method="beforeAdviceForAllMethods" pointcut-ref="logForAllMethods"/>; 
 <;aop:before method="beforeAdviceForTransferMethods" pointcut-ref="logForAllTransfer"/>; 
 <;/aop:aspect>; 
 <;/aop:config>; 
 
 <;bean id="transferService" class="com.doj.aopapp.service.TransferServiceImpl"/>; 
 
 <;bean id="loggingAspect" class="com.doj.aopapp.aspect.LoggingAspect"/>; 
<;/beans>; 
 
</pre>
<p><b><;aop:config/>; element</b><br />
A section (compartmentalization) of AOP-specific configuration (including aspects, pointcuts, etc).</p>
<p><b><;aop:aspect/>; element</b><br />
A named aspect definition.</p>
<p><b><;aop:pointcut/>; element</b><br />
A named pointcut definition.</p>
<p><b><;aop:before/>; element</b><br />
A before advice definition.</p>
<p><b>Target method of Service class on which aspects needs to apply</b></p>
<p><b>TransferService.java</b></p>
<pre class="highlight">/** 
 * 
 */ 
package com.doj.aopapp.service; 
 
/** 
 * @author Dinesh.Rajput 
 * 
 */ 
public interface TransferService { 
 
 void transfer(String accountA, String accountB, Long amount); 
 
 Double checkBalance(String account); 
 
 Long withdrawal(String account, Long amount); 
 
 void diposite(String account, Long amount); 
} 
 
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<p><b>TransferServiceImpl.java</b></p>
<pre class="highlight">/** 
 * 
 */ 
package com.doj.aopapp.service; 
 
/** 
 * @author Dinesh.Rajput 
 * 
 */ 
public class TransferServiceImpl implements TransferService { 
 
 @Override 
 public void transfer(String accountA, String accountB, Long amount) { 
 System.out.println(amount+" Amount has been tranfered from "+accountA+" to "+accountB); 
 } 
 
 @Override 
 public Double checkBalance(String account) { 
 return new Double(50000); 
 } 
 
 @Override 
 public Long withdrawal(String account, Long amount) { 
 return amount; 
 } 
 
 @Override 
 public void diposite(String account, Long amount) { 
 System.out.println(amount+" Amount has been diposited to "+account); 
 } 
 
} 
 
</pre>
<p><b>Aspect class &#8220;LoggingAspect&#8221;:</b><br />
Write aspect class and methods to be executed as advice.<br />
<b>LoggingAspect.java</b></p>
<pre class="highlight">/** 
 * 
 */ 
package com.doj.aopapp.aspect; 
 
import org.aspectj.lang.JoinPoint; 
 
/** 
 * @author Dinesh.Rajput 
 * 
 */ 
public class LoggingAspect { 
 
 /** 
 * Declaring before advice 
 * @param jp 
 * @throws Throwable 
 */ 
 public void beforeAdviceForAllMethods(JoinPoint jp) throws Throwable { 
 System.out.println("****LoggingAspect.beforeAdviceForAllMethods() " + jp.getSignature().getName()); 
 } 
 
 /** 
 * Declaring before advice for all transfer methods whose taking three arguments of any type 
 * of all classes in the package com.doj.aopapp.service 
 * @param jp 
 * @throws Throwable 
 */ 
 public void beforeAdviceForTransferMethods(JoinPoint jp) throws Throwable { 
 System.out.println("****LoggingAspect.beforeAdviceForTransferMethods() " + jp.getSignature().getName()); 
 } 
} 
 
</pre>
<h3><b>Test Class for Spring AOP Before Advice Configuration and Execution</b></h3>
<p>Now let’s see how to run and what would be output of this application when above configured aspects execute on given pointcut information.</p>
<pre class="highlight">/** 
 * 
 */ 
package com.doj.aopapp.test; 
 
import org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext; 
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext; 
 
import com.doj.aopapp.service.TransferService; 
 
/** 
 * @author Dinesh.Rajput 
 * 
 */ 
public class Main { 
 
 /** 
 * @param args 
 */ 
 public static void main(String[] args) { 
 ConfigurableApplicationContext applicationContext = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("applicationContext.xml"); 
 TransferService transferService = applicationContext.getBean(TransferService.class); 
 transferService.transfer("accountA", "accountB", 50000l); 
 System.out.println("Available balance: " +transferService.checkBalance("accountA")); 
 transferService.diposite("accountA", 50000l); 
 System.out.println("Withdrawal amount: " +transferService.withdrawal("accountB", 40000l)); 
 applicationContext.close(); 
 } 
 
} 
 
</pre>
<h2><b>Output on the Console:</b></h2>
<div style="background-color: #f2f9fc; border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid #c9e6f2; line-height: 1.45; padding: 16px;">Mar 07, 2017 6:55:52 PM org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext prepareRefresh<br />
INFO: Refreshing org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext@179d3b25: startup date [Tue Mar 07 18:55:52 IST 2017]; root of context hierarchy<br />
Mar 07, 2017 6:55:52 PM org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader loadBeanDefinitions<br />
INFO: Loading XML bean definitions from class path resource [applicationContext.xml]<br />
****LoggingAspect.beforeAdviceForAllMethods() transfer<br />
****LoggingAspect.beforeAdviceForTransferMethods() transfer<br />
50000 Amount has been tranfered from accountA to accountB<br />
****LoggingAspect.beforeAdviceForAllMethods() checkBalance<br />
Available balance: 50000.0<br />
****LoggingAspect.beforeAdviceForAllMethods() diposite<br />
50000 Amount has been diposited to accountA<br />
****LoggingAspect.beforeAdviceForAllMethods() withdrawal<br />
Withdrawal amount: 40000<br />
Mar 07, 2017 6:55:52 PM org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext doClose<br />
INFO: Closing org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext@179d3b25: startup date [Tue Mar 07 18:55:52 IST 2017]; root of context hierarchy</div>
<p>Analyse the output, all join points execute with given information in this example.</p>
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