Spring PCD

Spring AOP supports the following AspectJ pointcut designators (PCD) for use in pointcut expressions:

execution - for matching method execution join points, this is the primary pointcut designator you will use when working with Spring AOP

within - limits matching to join points within certain types (simply the execution of a method declared within a matching type when using Spring AOP)

this - limits matching to join points (the execution of methods when using Spring AOP) where the bean reference (Spring AOP proxy) is an instance of the given type

target - limits matching to join points (the execution of methods when using Spring AOP) where the target object (application object being proxied) is an instance of the given type

args - limits matching to join points (the execution of methods when using Spring AOP) where the arguments are instances of the given types

@target - limits matching to join points (the execution of methods when using Spring AOP) where the class of the executing object has an annotation of the given type

@args - limits matching to join points (the execution of methods when using Spring AOP) where the runtime type of the actual arguments passed have annotations of the given type(s)

@within - limits matching to join points within types that have the given annotation (the execution of methods declared in types with the given annotation when using Spring AOP)

@annotation - limits matching to join points where the subject of the join point (method being executed in Spring AOP) has the given annotation