aspectj-autoproxy + annotation type error

[gesf]

Hi everyone,
My first post here

I am having a situation that i can't solve. I am new to Spring but i think this should be simple.
I am trying do to some "Aspect" but it doesn't work. The only "visible" thing i got is an error:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: error Type referred to is not an annotation type: com$business$commons$annotation$LoggerAnnotation

when adding the line

<aop:aspectj-autoproxy />

to my context xml file.

So my code looks like this:

Annotation:

package com.business.commons.postprocess.annotation;

import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;

/**
 *
 * @author gesf
 */
@Target({ElementType.METHOD })
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
public @interface LoggerAnnotation {
}

Aspect:

package com.business.commons.postprocess.aspect;

import org.aspectj.lang.JoinPoint;
import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.AfterReturning;
import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Aspect;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

/**
 *
 * @author gesf
 */
@Component
@Aspect
public class LoggerAspect {
    
    /**
     * My Aspect.
     * @param joinPoint JoinPoint.
     * @param response Object.
     * @return nothing Object.
     */
    @AfterReturning(pointcut = "@annotation(com.business.commons.annotation.LoggerAnnotation)", returning = "response")
    public Object whenAnnotatedMethodIsInvoked(final JoinPoint joinPoint, final Object response) {

        System.out.print("testing!");
        return "testing";
        
    }       
    
}

Controller (wanted advised):

/**
     * mapping request for page.
     * 
     * @param request HttpServletRequest.
     * @return nothing Object.
     */
    @LoggerAnnotation
    @RequestMapping(value = "/page", method = RequestMethod.GET)
    @ResponseBody
    public String getPageRequest(final HttpServletRequest request) {
        // do something
        return "ok";
    }

Context .xml (config):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
        xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
                              http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd
                              http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
                                http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
                                http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
                                http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd ">
 
    <context:component-scan base-package="com.business.commons.postprocess.aspect"/>
    <context:component-scan base-package="com.business.commons.postprocess.annotation"/>

    <aop:aspectj-autoproxy />
    
</beans>

(edited: erroneous calls above were already fixed to 3.1, but the same happens)

And the error in the top is what i get when adding the auto proxy line. Without it nothing happens, still i can build the application. I have tried other pointcut expressions, but i think that's not the problem. The Spring release being used is 3.1.1 and / 3.1.0 for security (just in case).

Any ideas on how to solve this !?
Thanks in advance!

Cheers,
gesf

[debabratp]

Instead of
@AfterReturning(pointcut = "@annotation(com.business.commons.annotation.Logge rAnnotation)", returning = "response")
public Object whenAnnotatedMethodIsInvoked(final JoinPoint joinPoint, final Object response) {

try

@AfterReturning(pointcut = "@annotation(LoggerAnnotation)", returning = "response")
public Object whenAnnotatedMethodIsInvoked(final JoinPoint joinPoint, final Object response) {

[gesf]

Hey debabratp! Thanks for your reply.
Well... the error is exactly the same with that change!
Any other ideas ?
Cheers

[debabratp]

Hey debabratp! Thanks for your reply.
Well... the error is exactly the same with that change!
Any other ideas ?
Cheers

In your @annotation declaration i found the package name is wrong, it must be com.business.commons.postprocess.annotation.Logger Annotation.

Are you using Java 7?