Pointcut does not matching

[zupport]

My application uses a library of gwt-dispatch. I'm trying to use AOP for specific purposes, I want to modify the type of exception generated servlet.

In setting the AOP point out the following:

<bean name="errorsAdviser" class="com.test.app.server.aop.ErrorsAdviser" />


<aop:aspectj-autoproxy/>
<aop:config>
  <aop:aspect id="exceptionCatcher" ref="errorsAdviser">
 	 <aop:pointcut id="exceptionCatcherPointCut" expression="execution(* net.customware.gwt.dispatch.server.spring..*.*(..))"/>
	 <aop:after-returning method="afterReturning" pointcut-ref="exceptionCatcherPointCut"/>
</aop:config>

Pointed Class:

package net.customware.gwt.dispatch.server.spring;

import javax.servlet.ServletConfig;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;

import net.customware.gwt.dispatch.server.Dispatch;
import net.customware.gwt.dispatch.server.standard.AbstractStandardDispatchServlet;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactoryUtils;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.web.context.WebApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.web.context.support.WebApplicationContextUtils;

public class SpringStandardDispatchServlet extends AbstractStandardDispatchServlet {
    
    @Autowired
    private Dispatch dispatch;
    
    @Override
    public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException {

        super.init(config);
        
        WebApplicationContext ctx = WebApplicationContextUtils.getRequiredWebApplicationContext(config.getServletContext());
        
        dispatch = (Dispatch) BeanFactoryUtils.beanOfType(ctx, Dispatch.class);
    }
 

    @Override
    protected Dispatch getDispatch() {
        
        return dispatch;
    }
}

package net.customware.gwt.dispatch.server.standard;

import net.customware.gwt.dispatch.client.standard.StandardDispatchService;
import net.customware.gwt.dispatch.server.Dispatch;
import net.customware.gwt.dispatch.shared.Action;
import net.customware.gwt.dispatch.shared.DispatchException;
import net.customware.gwt.dispatch.shared.Result;
import net.customware.gwt.dispatch.shared.ServiceException;

import com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RemoteServiceServlet;

public abstract class AbstractStandardDispatchServlet extends RemoteServiceServlet implements
        StandardDispatchService {

    public Result execute( Action<?> action ) throws DispatchException {
        try {
            Dispatch dispatch = getDispatch();
            
            if ( dispatch == null )
                throw new ServiceException("No dispatch found for servlet '" + getServletName() + "' . Please verify your server-side configuration.");
            
            return dispatch.execute( action );
        } catch ( RuntimeException e ) {
            log( "Exception while executing " + action.getClass().getName() + ": " + e.getMessage(), e );
            throw new ServiceException( e );
        }
    }

    /**
     * 
     * @return The Dispatch instance.
     */
    protected abstract Dispatch getDispatch();

}

However, the match does not occur, although in debugger I can see that the methods are executed.

In what may be the problem? What am I doing wrong?

[Marten Deinum]

Please use the search this question has been answered numerous times before.

Spring will only intercept beans it knowns (yours is apparently a servlet not under spring control) and next it will only intercept external and not internall method calls (due to the fact spring uses proxies).