Webflow + Spring AOP

[ufasoli]

Hi,
I was wondering if it was possible to use Spring AOP to intercept methods invoked from a flow definition file like so

flow-definition file :

<action-state id="saveAndClose">

  <transition on="yes" to="endEdit">
    <evaluate expression="messageService.save(flowScope.message)" />
  </transition>
</action-state> 

I'm trying to intercept the call to the save method. While browsing the web I read that since Webflow uses reflexion to call methods it cannot be done directly so I decided to create the pointcut on the DAO that the bean MessageService uses to persist the object in the database like so :

<aop:config>
    <aop:aspect ref="applicationConfigUtil">
     <aop:pointcut 
         expression="execution (* mypackage.MessageDao.save(..))" 
          id="pcSaveMessage" />
       
           
           <aop:after method="reload" pointcut-ref="pcSaveMessage"/>

       </aop:aspect>
    </aop:config> 

here is my aspect

@Component
public class ApplicationConfigUtil implements Serializable{

    public void reload(){
        System.out.println("Reloading");

    }
} 

But the advice method never gets called. Is there a way to accomplish this (without using full AspectJ implementation) ?

Any ideas?

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I'm using :
Spring Webflow : 2.3.0
Spring : 3.0.5

[ufasoli]

I managed to get this one working finally. The first thing I had to do was to move my AOP stuff from the servlet-context.xml to applicationContext.xml. The second thing was to advice the parent interface (I had 2 interfaces GenericDAO and MessageDAO that extended the generic one) the method I was trying to advice was in the parent interface.
Maybe this can help someone