spring-rest-aop

Example project illustrating:

• how to implement REST services with Spring

  • simple
  • with path variable
  • with request parameter
  • returning JSON response

• how to use Spring AOP with custom annotation as point cut

• how to send parameters to the advice

• how to get annotated method parameters

• how to access return value of the advised method

• how to use log4j2 with JSON layout

Using the project:

1. Import in Eclipse as maven project
2. Deploy in Tomcat 8.0 under Eclipse
3. See JUnit tests
4. URL for the rest endpoints: http://localhost:8080/spring-rest-aop/rest/greet or http://localhost:8080/spring-rest-aop/rest/greet/John or http://localhost:8080/spring-rest-aop/rest/greeting?name=John