Help! Cannot get advice to "fire"

[kantorn]

Here's the setup servlet-context.xml:

<bean id="breakInjector" class="ks.rah.avik2.web.form.support.AddHtmlBreakInterceptor"/>
	
	<bean id="breakInjectorTarget" class="ks.rah.avik2.logic.LogicFacadeImpl">
		<property name="sessionFactory"><ref bean="sessionFactory"/></property>
	</bean>
	
	<!-- Interceptor to inject <br>-tags into output -->
	<bean id="breakInjectorPointcut" class="org.springframework.aop.support.RegexpMethodPointcutAdvisor">
		<property name="advice"><ref local="breakInjector"/></property>
		<property name="patterns">
			<list>
				<value>.*</value>
			</list>
		</property>
	</bean>
	
	<bean id="debugInterceptor" class="org.springframework.aop.interceptor.DebugInterceptor">
	</bean>
	
	<bean id="breakInjectorProxy" class="org.springframework.aop.framework.ProxyFactoryBean">		
		<property name="proxyInterfaces"><value>ks.rah.avik2.logic.LogicFacade</value></property>
		<property name="target"><ref bean="logic"/></property>
		<property name="interceptorNames">
			<list>
				<value>breakInjector</value>
				<value>debugInterceptor</value>
			</list>		
		</property>
	</bean>

The logicImpl (in applicationContext-hibernate)

<bean id="logicImpl" class="ks.rah.avik2.logic.LogicFacadeImpl">
		<property name="sessionFactory"><ref local="sessionFactory"/></property>
		<property name="userDao"><ref local="userDao"/></property>
		<property name="eventDao"><ref local="eventDao"/></property>
		<property name="posDao"><ref local="positionDao"/></property>
		<property name="deptDao"><ref local="departmentDao"/></property>
		<property name="locDao"><ref local="locationDao"/></property>
		<property name="uiDao"><ref local="uiDao"/></property>
		<property name="funcDao"><ref local="funcDao"/></property>
		<property name="tentryDao"><ref local="tentryDao"/></property>
	</bean>

Relevant method of interceptor:

public class AddHtmlBreakInterceptor implements MethodInterceptor {
	
	public static Logger log = Logger.getLogger("AddHtmlBreakInterceptor");
	
	public Object invoke(MethodInvocation invocation) throws Throwable{
		log.debug("AddHtmlBreakInterceptor invoked");
		System.out.println("Holy smoke!");
		return invocation.proceed();
	
	}

No traces from log or System.out. No 'Holy smoke!'. Zip. Zero.

I thought that '.*' meant any method/pattern.

Help please.

[kantorn]

'logic' should be 'logicImpl'
It still doesn't work.

[irbouho]

What bean do you access from your client code? breakInjectorProxy?

[kantorn]

I access the 'logicImpl' (listed as 'logic' in the first post) which is the main business facade implementation. Hence the

AddHtmlBreakInterceptor

should fire every time the app hits the database, so there should be a lot of traces. It isn't, of course, invoked directly, but indirectly through a lot of MVC webcontrollers.

[irbouho]

You should be using breakInjectorProxy.
HTH

[kantorn]

You should be using breakInjectorProxy.

OK....
I don't understand.
Isn't the "target" property of the ProxyFactoryBean meant to hide the application from the need to explicitly fetch the ProxyFactoryBean?

But it works. I apparently have been able to miss this little detail.

I suggest a minor adjustment to the part of Spring docs that says:

The "person" bean definition above can be used in place of a Person implementation, as follows:

Person person = (Person) factory.getBean("person");

to

In order to be able to use AOP functionality the "person" bean definition above MUST be used in place of a Person implementation, as follows:

Person person = (Person) factory.getBean("person");

Anyway, thanks for your help and patience.