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What's aopalliance all about? And why is guice using it?

I'm using guice for dependency injection with aop from aopalliance. I can't quite figure out what's aopalliance all about and who implemented the version (dated from 2004) that's on their sourceforge page. Why is guice using this version instead of a more known package such as AspectJ?

Also, do you know of any tutorials on the aopalliance version?

Thanks

Solution

  • AOP Alliance is a set of interfaces that multiple frameworks implement (see AOP Alliance Motivations), including both Guice and Spring.

    AOP Alliance was chosen for Guice because it has a high capability and a simple API.

    The Guice wiki has an AOP guide.