Spring AOP Deep Dive: Interview Quiz & Answers – What's New in Spring Boot 3.x Default Proxy?
This article presents a 17‑question interview self‑test on Spring AOP, providing detailed answers that cover JDK dynamic proxy vs CGLIB, the internal flow of Proxy.newProxyInstance, InvocationHandler dispatch, MethodProxy differences, the interceptor chain, @Around requirements, AopContext ThreadLocal, self‑invocation pitfalls, final/static/private method limitations, @Order priority, Spring AOP vs AspectJ capabilities, performance of @Around vs @Before, multi‑factor aspect ordering, notification order changes between Spring 5 and 6, default proxy strategy differences in Spring Boot 2.x and 3.x, and migration considerations.
