Hi,

I am trying to write a simple standalone program using the @before annotation of Spring AOP, but it is not working as expected. I am posting below the classes and Beans.xml file that i have generated for the same. THis is a very basic implementation but can't understand why is not working. Any help is much appreciated

Aspect Class:
Code:
package com.royz.test.aop;

import org.aspectj.lang.JoinPoint;
import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Aspect;
import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Before;

@Aspect
public class LoggerAspect {
	
	@Before("execution(* com.royz.test.Performer.playTune(..))")
	public void logplaytune(){
		System.out.println("Is about to play  tune");
	}
}
Interface which needs to be advised

package com.royz.test;

Code:
public interface Performer {
	
	public void playTune();
	public void bowToApplause();
	public void playtuneThrowsExcepttion() throws Exception;

}
Implementation of the Interface

Code:
package com.royz.test;

public class PerformerImpl implements Performer {

	public void playTune() {
		System.out.println("Playing tune");

	}

	public void bowToApplause() {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub

	}

	public void playtuneThrowsExcepttion() throws Exception {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub

	}

}
The class which is launching the Spring container
Code:
package com.royz.test;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanFactory;
import org.springframework.core.io.FileSystemResource;

public class SprintTestLaunch {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		
		BeanFactory beanFactory = new XmlBeanFactory(new FileSystemResource("E:\\xyz\\Spring STS\\workspace\\testaop\\src\\main\\java\\com\\royz\\test\\beans.xml"));
		Performer prfmr = (Performer)beanFactory.getBean("performer");
		prfmr.playTune();
	}
}
The Beans.xml file
Code:
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
	xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
	xsi:schemaLocation="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 ">
 
	<aop:aspectj-autoproxy />
 
	<bean id="performer" class="com.royz.test.PerformerImpl" />
	<!-- Aspect -->
	<bean id="logAspect" class="com.royz.test.aop.LoggerAspect" />
 
</beans>
When i am running this code the output i am getting is 'playing tune' but i am not getting the message that should be printed as part of the @Before advice.

Regards,
Royz