Application context creation fails when AOP around advice is added to spring context

[amannath]

Hi

I am stuck on a weird issue. I have added a new AOP point cut and an around advice in the spring xml file. After adding this, the application context creation fails saying that some of the bean creation failed. These beans are no where related to the my changes. But after adding my aop tags, looks like spring is trying to create these beans in a different way. If I comment out my aop.around advice, it works fine. Can anybody tell whats the root cause and possible ways to resolve it.

My Spring configuration

<bean id="myAdvice" class="x.y.z.MyAdvice">
	<property name="log" ref="myLog" />
	<property name="myProperties">
		<util:properties location="file:${myFileLocation}" />
	</property>		
</bean>
	
<aop:config>
	<aop:aspect ref="myAdvice">
		<aop:pointcut id="myExecution" expression="execution(* x.y.z.MyServiceImpl.add(..)) and args(arg1, arg2)"/>
         <aop:around pointcut-ref="myExecution" method="handleMyExecution"/>
	</aop:aspect>
</aop:config>

Error

2012-07-17 13:52:25,493 ERROR context.ContextLoader - Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'abcCRUDHandler' defined in class path resource [META-INF/abc/abc_base.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'abcQueryHandler' while setting bean property 'providers' with key [0]; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'abcQueryHandler': Post-processing of the FactoryBean's object failed; nested exception is org.aspectj.weaver.reflect.ReflectionWorld$ReflectionWorldException: warning can't determine superclass of missing type $Proxy274
 [Xlint:cantFindType]
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:328)

Spring version="3.0.0.RELEASE"

[amiladomingo]

Check if the aspectj jars are there and the correct versions are there.

[Enrico Pizzi]

I would also check that you have the correct -nodep version of CGLIB under your classpath...what happens if you provide an interface for the beans that are advised by your pointcut? Have you tried?