Proxy bean issue

[Huskie009]

I've searched the forum for a solution to this but found nothing... Maybe someone else can shed some light on this.

I am using an annotated Aspect class with a simple @Before that outputs to the console. When I start up my application in tomcat I get the following exception:

BeanNotOfRequiredTypeException: Bean named 'foo.bar.Bar' must be of type foo.bar.Bar but was actually of type [$Proxy9].

In a forum post it sounds like something to do with class loaders?? Any thoughts?

[Marten Deinum]

You are using class proxies, you don't programm to interfaces is my guess. Enable classproxying.

[Huskie009]

I am actually implementing an interface that has two methods.

@Before("execution(* com.foo.bar.Bar.isRunning()")

isRunning is a method on the interface that is implemented by the Bar class.

I have tried both proxy-target-class="false" and proxy-target-class="true" But get the same message.