TypeMismatchException Problem...AOP Load Order Issue?

[mecode]

Here's the configuration:

Spring context:

<aop:aspectj-autoproxy />
	<bean id="simpleMethodTraceAspect" 
	class="com.company.swd.common.view.util.SimpleMethodTraceAspect">
	</bean>	
	<bean id="ApEngineListener" class="com.company.swd.apengine.core.ApEngineListener"
	 init-method="init" destroy-method="dispose">
	 	<property name="ActivityPlanManager">
			<ref bean="ActivityPlanManager"/>
		</property>
	 </bean>

	<bean id="ActivityPlanManager" class="com.company.swd.apengine.core.ActivityPlanManager" 
destroy-method="shutdown" init-method="init" scope="singleton">
	</bean>

Aspect class...Defines simple package pointcut:

@Aspect
public class SystemArchitectureAOP {
	  @Pointcut("within(com.company.swd.apengine..*)")
	  public void inApengine() {}
}

Advice Class:

@Aspect
public class SimpleMethodTraceAspect implements Ordered {

	private Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(SimpleMethodTraceAspect.class);

	private int order = 1;

	public int getOrder() {
		return this.order;
	}

	public void setOrder(int order) {
		this.order = order;
	}

	@Around("com.company.swd.common.view.util.SystemArchitectureAOP.inApengine()")
	public Object trace(ProceedingJoinPoint pjp)
			throws Throwable {

		logger.info("Target: " + pjp.getTarget());
		logger.info("Signature Name: " + pjp.getSignature().getName());
		try {
			logger.info("UserName: "
					+ SecurityAssociation.getPrincipal().getName());
		} catch (RuntimeException e) {
			// just catch 
		}
		return pjp.proceed();
	}

}

Here's the problem: Spring is trying to inject the ActivityPlanManager bean into the ApEngineListener bean, but it is causing a TypeMismatchException during context startup because the Spring context is seeing the ActivityPlanManager bean as one of those proxy types:

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationExce ption: Error creating bean with name 'ApEngineListener' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/apEngineContext.xml]: Error setting property values; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.PropertyBatchUpdateExcep tion; nested PropertyAccessExceptions (1) are:
PropertyAccessException 1: org.springframework.beans.TypeMismatchException: Failed to convert property value of type [$Proxy241] to required type [com.company.swd.apengine.core.ActivityPlanManager] for property 'ActivityPlanManager'; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No matching editors or conversion strategy found
Caused by:
org.springframework.beans.PropertyBatchUpdateExcep tion; nested PropertyAccessException details (1) are:
PropertyAccessException 1:
org.springframework.beans.TypeMismatchException: Failed to convert property value of type [$Proxy241] to required type [com.company.swd.apengine.core.ActivityPlanManager] for property 'ActivityPlanManager'; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No matching editors or conversion strategy found
Caused by:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No matching editors or conversion strategy found

Why would the ActivityPlanManager bean be a $Proxy241 type? Maybe it's a load order issue, where Spring hasn't finished it's AOP magic yet on the ActivityPlanManager bean?

Any help would be appreciated.

[karldmoore]

Are you programming to interfaces? Might want to check this out.
http://www.cwinters.com/news/display/3410

Also this might help.
http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=28216

[mecode]

The proxy-target-class="true" addition worked. Thanks!