AspectJ Integration with Spring

[glenna]

Hi

I would like to tap into the full power of AspectJ in Spring therefore I want to create an aspect and use it in my application.xml file of spring. However when I create a bean in the application.xml and actually do logic, no entering method: text occurs on console....

However if I convert my java project to adjt project and compile i get the text...entering method etc... because the aspect is woven into code at compile time...

What I am trying to do is get spring to weave in the AspectJ aspect - not Spring AOP(retrieved using aspectOf in factory-method) into my code at runtime/loadtime when code is running...

I would like to be able to dynamically remove the aspectJ aspect from xml and have spring act appropriately..

// 
// This aspect allows us to perform logging using Log4j.
//
// Change History;
// 17th Aug 11 (v1.0) - Updated comments to work with javadoc.
//
package nz.ac.vuw.oim.utils.logging;

// Include required libraries
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.aspectj.weaver.Aspect;


public aspect LoggingAspect 
{	
	// Setup variables
	private Logger  m_objLogger        = Logger.getLogger(LoggingAspect.class);
	private Boolean m_bolLogAllMethods = false;
	
	// Where do we want to log
	pointcut logAllMethods() : execution(* *(..));			// Log every method call
	//pointcut logMe() : execution(* set*(..));			// Log every method call
	
	/****************************************************************************************************
	 * Create a logging aspect that will use Log4J.
	 ***************************************************************************************************/
	public LoggingAspect()
	{}
	
	/****************************************************************************************************
	 * Shall we log all methods?
	 ***************************************************************************************************/
	public void setLogAllMethods(boolean bolLogAllMethods)
	{ m_bolLogAllMethods = bolLogAllMethods; }
	
	/****************************************************************************************************
	 * Create a logging aspect that will use Log4J.
	 ***************************************************************************************************/
	Object around() : logAllMethods() 
	{
		//m_objLogger.debug("Entering method: " );
		System.out.println("Entering method: " + thisJoinPoint.getSignature().getName());
		return proceed();
		//m_objLogger.
	}
}

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" 
	   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
       xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
	   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
      					   http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd 
	   					   http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
	   					   http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.0.xsd
	   					   http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
	   					   http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
      	 
<!--  ASPECTJ LOGGING -->

<bean id="loggingAspect" class="nz.ac.vuw.oim.utils.logging.LoggingAspect" />

</beans>

[Marten Deinum]

1) You are mixing xsd files
2) You only have an Aspect declared in your xml nothing more
3) You aren't using load time or compile time weaving in short you are still using proxy based aop (regardless of the fact that you use aspects to define/declare your aspect).