@Configurable and CTW problem

[mhcsor]

Hi all!

This is my first post here! I am trying really hard to make a type not controlled by the Spring container to be injected with aspects with no success.

I´ve searched the forum and tried some things posted here but it just doesn´t work.

Let´s get to the problem!

I have an abstract class called AbstractViewHelper and I need to advice it after returning the invocation of a method called

String outcome()

I´ve annotated the class with

@Configurable

and use the following on my applicationContext-aop.xml

<aop:after-returning method="logMethodExit" returning="s" pointcut="execution(* edu.test..*ViewHelper.outcome(..))" />

I also included

<aop:spring-configured>

on the applicationContext-aop.xml

The versions of libs I am using are:

* spring-framework 2.0.8
* spring-aspects 2.0.8
* aspectjrt 1.5.3
* aspectjweaver 1.5.3

Sorry for any grammar mistakes!

Thanks in advance!

[Marten Deinum]

This is my first post here! I am trying really hard to make a type not controlled by the Spring container to be injected with aspects with no success.

You cannot. I suggest a read of the reference guide especially the aop chapter. Spring needs to create a proxy, when you are in control of the construction of objects that isn't possible. You will need either loadtime weaving controller by AspectJ and not spring! or compile time weaving to make it happen.

[mhcsor]

You cannot. I suggest a read of the reference guide especially the aop chapter. Spring needs to create a proxy, when you are in control of the construction of objects that isn't possible. You will need either loadtime weaving controller by AspectJ and not spring! or compile time weaving to make it happen.

Martin, first of all I´d like to thank you for the quick answer!

That´s exactly what I am trying to achieve. I´ve read the aop chapter and some posts about CTW and LTW but I can´t make it work on my project.

First I got an error ClassNotFoundException: AnnotationBeanConfigurer then I put spring-aspects on my pom.xml.

After that I´ve tried to put agent VM argument and got "Failed to load Premain-Class manifest attribute"

I am really confused about what to try next...

I am guessing it´s something with the version of the libs I am using... but I really don´t know...

Tks!