Does Spring roo use Spring AOP ?

[sudhirkd]

I am new to Spring Roo. Based on my readings, I dont think Roo generation of code uses Spring AOP. It only uses AspectJ. Is this assumption correct ? I am reading all technologies being used by Spring Roo, just want to make sure I read only relevant.

Thanks

[dserodio]

Spring AOP is used "under the covers" for transactional support, among others.

[sudhirkd]

Spring AOP is used "under the covers" for transactional support, among others.

Thanks for the response. I have created test Roo project. But I dont see any traces of Spring AOP being used. I checked all import packages in .aj files. Or are you talking about spring aop in any spring project ?

[dserodio]

AFAIK it's just the standard "declarative transaction management" in Spring. For instance, the "persist" method in *_Roo_Jpa_ActiveRecord.aj is annotated with @Transactional, and <tx:annotation-driven/> is added to applicationContext.xml

[sudhirkd]

AFAIK it's just the standard "declarative transaction management" in Spring. For instance, the "persist" method in *_Roo_Jpa_ActiveRecord.aj is annotated with @Transactional, and <tx:annotation-driven/> is added to applicationContext.xml

Thanks dserodio, makese sense. I liked your footer quote btw. Keep it simple... We engineers sometimes make things complex unnecessarily..