How Java AOP implemented

How Java AOP works

Class-weaving-based, such as AspectJ and JBoss AOP. Core and crosscutting concerns are implemented independently. Class weaving is the process of integrating the concern implementations to form the final system. Weaving can be performed at compile, load, and run time. Both AspectJ and JBoss AOP are very powerful AOP implementations. They provide field interception, caller side interception, and constructor interception.
Proxy-based, such as Spring AOP, Nanning, and dynaop. With proxies, method invocations on an object can be intercepted to inject custom code. The aforementioned AOP frameworks use JDK dynamic proxy, CGLIB proxy, or both. Unlike the class-weaving-based ones, proxy-based AOP frameworks are simpler and often focus on method interception. Most of the time, Java developers use method interception only. Some proxy-based AOP implementations, such as Spring AOP, provide close integration with AspectJ to take advantage of its capabilities.

What if you want to proxy legacy classes that do not have interfaces? You can use CGLIB. CGLIB is a powerful, high-performance code generation library. Under the cover, it uses ASM, a small but fast bytecode manipulation framework, to transform existing byte code to generate new classes. CGLIB is faster than the JDK dynamic proxy approach. Essentially, it dynamically generates a subclass to override the non-final methods of the proxied class and wires up hooks that call back to the user-defined interceptors.

1. Dynamic proxy using InvocationHandler

public Object invoke(Object target, Method method, Object[] arguments) {
System.out.println("before method " + method.getName());
return method.invoke(obj, args);
}
}

2. Java byte-code transformation:

http://asm.ow2.org/doc/tutorial-annotations.html

Refere this article : http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2005/11/01/implement-proxy-based-aop.html