Spring AOP: Annotation pointcut not causing advice to execute
I am using Spring AOP (with AspectJ annotation style support) and want to execute code if a method is annotated with a specific annotation (WsTransaction).
Here is my aspect:
Code:
@Aspect
@Component
public class ExampleAspect {
@Pointcut("execution(* example.*.ws.*.*(..))")
public void isWebService() {}
@Pointcut("@annotation(example.common.ws.WsTransaction)")
public void isAnnotated() {}
@Before("isWebService() && isAnnotated()")
public void before() {
System.out.println("before called");
}
}
This is an example class where I expect it to run:
Code:
package example.common.ws;
@Endpoint
public class SomeEndpoint {
@WsTransaction() // I want advice to execute if this annotation present
@PayloadRoot(localPart = "SomeRequest", namespace = "http://example/common/ws/")
public SomeResponse methodToBeCalled(SomeRequest request) {
// Do stuff
return someResponse;
}
}
When I change @Before to only use isWebService() it is called but when I try it with isWebService() && isAnnotated() or just isAnnotated() nothing seems to happen.
I have <aop:aspectj-autoproxy/> in my Spring config.
The endpoint is created by Spring (using component-scan).
The annotation's retention policy is runtime.
Spring version is 3.0.3.RELEASE
I am not sure what is wrong or what I can try to debug. Any help will be appreciated.
