Has anyone done AOP outside of Spring Framework? That's my only exposure and it feels very library level. Nothing I would use as a the primary way to structure the code.
I think I prefer Springboot AOP, especially with SpEL.
The term “cross cutting concerns” is thrown around a lot when discussing AOP. Took me a while to appreciate just how powerful it is in this context - sprinkle an AOP annotation here or there to avoid massive refactors in a large codebase, or avoid rewriting classes in a way that makes your classes themselves “cross cut concerns.”