Intercepting init-methods

[techiemails@yahoo.com]

Hello,

Is there a way to advice init-methods in Spring?

For ex. I have a method initialize() which is a init-method configured in my applicationContext.xml.

When I directly invoke initialize() without init-method, am able to advice the same, but as soon as I add init-method, it ignores the advice. How to achieve this kind of advising?

Any thoughts would be really helpful.

Thanks & Regards
Surya

[Marten Deinum]

The only way to achieve this is to use loadtime or compile time weaving... With the default aop mechanism (proxies) that isn't possible...