AspectJ @Before problem

[mmccaskill]

Seems that Hibernate ships with asm-*-1.5.3 but Spring 2.1-M4 ships with asm-*2.2.3. If I use asm-*-1.5.3 Spring breaks, but if I use asm-*-2.2.3 Hibernate breaks. So I can't test this either way.

[mmccaskill]

First a little explaining. When I began this post, I was using Ant but since then I've switched to Maven. So I figured it out. First I found this article explaining the problem. Then I did this:

pom.xml

...
<dependency>
        <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
        <artifactId>hibernate</artifactId>
        <version>3.2.5.ga</version>
        <exclusions>
          <exclusion>
            <artifactId>asm</artifactId>
            <groupId>asm</groupId>
          </exclusion>
          <exclusion>
            <artifactId>asm</artifactId>
            <groupId>asm-attrs</groupId>
          </exclusion>
          <exclusion>
          	<groupId>cglib</groupId>
          	<artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
          </exclusion>
        </exclusions>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
    		<groupId>asm</groupId>
    		<artifactId>asm</artifactId>
    		<version>2.2.3</version>
    	</dependency>
    	<dependency>
    		<groupId>asm</groupId>
    		<artifactId>asm-attrs</artifactId>
    		<version>2.2.3</version>
    	</dependency>
    	<dependency>
    		<groupId>asm</groupId>
    		<artifactId>asm-commons</artifactId>
    		<version>2.2.3</version>
    	</dependency>
    	<dependency>
    		<groupId>asm</groupId>
    		<artifactId>asm-util</artifactId>
    		<version>2.2.3</version>
    	</dependency>
    	<dependency>
    		<groupId>cglib</groupId>
    		<artifactId>cglib-nodep</artifactId>
    		<version>2.1_3</version>
    	</dependency>
....

Notice the bolded cglib-nodep. nodep is very important. Then the last thing I discovered is I had to put the annotation on the implementation of my DAO, not the DAO interface, and not the TestCase as you pointed out. It had to be on a Spring managed bean. Then it worked like a champ! Thanks for your help.