AOP Starter not available to add as a dependency

The AOP / Aspects starter seems to not be available to choose. Adding the dependency spring-boot-starter-aop manually works fine. Is this an intended behavior?

[marcinkunert]

Let me explain my point of view, the decision is ofc up to you.

As a developer I would expect all the (official) starters to be on start.spring.io, simply because there is no reason why not (at least on the first thought). There is already a lot of them and no information that the list is limited. So I go to the search bar and type “aop” or “aspect” and there is nothing. At this moment I think there is no starter for that and I have to setup it manually.

One way to fix this would be to expand the “No result.” message to sth like “No result. Consider checking the community starters”. Or (in this case) “No result. Consider checking the community starters and our official ones which didn’t make it to the list.”

I’m sorry for the exaggeration but the more I think of it the more it seems to be wrong.

[marcinkunert]

@snicoll Thanks for the answer. I understand now that the decision is well thought out. I’ll adjust my course, thats not an issue at all. I just wanted to share my opinion on this.