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= Ordering Advices within Advice Chain
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Advice classes are "`around`" advices and are applied in a nested fashion.
The first advice is the outermost, while the last advice is the innermost (that is, closest to the handler being advised).
It is important to put the advice classes in the correct order to achieve the functionality you desire.

For example, suppose you want to add a retry advice and a transaction advice.
You may want to place the retry advice first, followed by the transaction advice.
Consequently, each retry is performed in a new transaction.
On the other hand, if you want all the attempts and any recovery operations (in the retry `RecoveryCallback`) to be scoped within the transaction, you could put the transaction advice first.

