trouble with simple BeanNameAutoProxyCreator example

[squeebie]

I'm new to Spring, and tried to set up a BeanNameAutoProxyCreator example just to see the AOP stuff work, and I'm having some trouble.

My xml looks like this:

    <bean id="sampleSpringObject" class="com.agentscape.associate.test.SampleSpringObjectImpl">
        <property name="name" value="Joe"/>
        <property name="age" value="28"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="autoLogger" class="com.agentscape.associate.test.AutoLoggerAdvice"/>

    <bean id="autoProxyCreator" class="org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.BeanNameAutoProxyCreator">
        <property name="interceptorNames">
            <value>autoLogger</value>
        </property>
        <property name="beanNames">
            <value>*</value>
        </property>
    </bean>

From the examples I've seen, I would've expected my before method on my AutoLoggerAdvice class to get called for any methods on my SampleSpringObject, but nothing seems to get called. I call the getters on my SampleSpringObject, and I don't see my before method get called.

My Advice class is very simple, just:

public class AutoLoggerAdvice implements MethodBeforeAdvice {

    public void before(Method method, Object[] args, Object target) throws Throwable {
        System.out.println("method.getName() = " + method.getName());
    }

}

I know the advice and the bean work, because I was able to get an example working with this xml:

    <bean id="sampleSpringObjectTarget" class="com.agentscape.associate.test.SampleSpringObjectImpl">
        <property name="name" value="Joe"/>
        <property name="age" value="28"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="autoLogger" class="com.agentscape.associate.test.AutoLoggerAdvice"/>

    <bean id="sampleSpringObject" class="org.springframework.aop.framework.ProxyFactoryBean">
        <property name="proxyInterfaces">
            <list>
                <value>com.agentscape.associate.test.SampleSpringObject</value>
            </list>
        </property>
        <property name="interceptorNames">
            <list>
                <value>autoLogger</value>
            </list>
        </property>
        <property name="target">
            <ref bean="sampleSpringObjectTarget"/>
        </property>
    </bean>

Do I have something wrong in my BeanNameAutoProxyCreator config that it's not picking up the methods in my SampleSpringObject?

Thanks in advance.

[hucmuc]

How are you loading it? You need to use the ApplicationContext (not the XmlBeanFactory). E.g.

final BeanFactory beanFactory = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(appContextFile);

[squeebie]

How are you loading it? You need to use the ApplicationContext (not the XmlBeanFactory). E.g.

final BeanFactory beanFactory = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(appContextFile);

That must be it. I was trying it with the XmlBeanFactory. Thanks for the tip.