Capabilities and goals

Spring AOP provides a simple AOP implementation to implement crosscutting concerns using the proxy pattern and decorator pattern. It is not considered a complete AOP solution, Spring can be applied to the beans that are managed by a Spring container.

AspectJ is the original AOP technology, aiming to provide a complete AOP solution. It is more robust, however, and more complicated than Spring AOP. The benefit of AspectJ is that it can be applied across all domain objects.