Before Advice is not working for @ModelAttribute annotated method

[vaibhavagarwal]

Below is the advice and pointcut that I have applied for presentation layer.

@Pointcut("!@annotation(org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ModelAttribute) && (execution(* com.abcd.cp.presentation..*.*(..)))")
	private void loggingOperation() {}
	
	@Before("loggingOperation()")
	public void logBefore(JoinPoint joinPoint) {
		log.info("The Method " + joinPoint.getSignature().getName() + "() in Target Class "
				+ joinPoint.getTarget().getClass().getName() + " Starts execution");
	}

Here after advice is working fine but before advice is not working for @ModelAttribute annotated method.

        @SuppressWarnings( { "unused" })
	@ModelAttribute(COUNTRY_LIST)
	private List<Country> getCountryList() throws SystemException, PortalException {
		return userService.getCountryList();
	}

I am using 1.6.4 version of AspectJ and 3.1 version of Spring AOP. When getCountryList method is called userService object is null. If I remove before advice then this is working fine.