Basic AOP not working

[gary.liu1119@gmail.com]

Thanks Mike.
It makes sense now. I have post my fix yesterday.
--Gary

Gary -

The original pointcut expression you supplied:

com.dcci.spring.aop.HelloService.testReturnVal()

will attempt to reference a named pointcut (defined with @Pointcut) called testReturnVal. However, it looks like you were trying to create a pointcut expression to match calls to an existing testReturnVal method. When creating a pointcut expression, you need to use one of the supported pointcut designators, such as execution(); otherwise, a simple method signature will be interpreted as a named pointcut. See here for more details on the available pointcut designators:

http://static.springframework.org/sp...ts-designators

[renatopb]

http://static.springframework.org/sp...ng-aop-proxies

Just to fix the broken link:
http://static.springframework.org/sp...ng-aop-proxies
Because the "current" isn't working.

By the way, Mike, do you mean that there is no pointcut capable of advising all called/executed internal methods?
I've been trying to log all methods that are called in my controller that extends SimpleFormController. And by that I mean calling all inherited methods, including the finalones. Is that possible?

[Marten Deinum]

Not with basic Spring AOP. You will need a fullblown AOP solution, like AspectJ, for that in combination with loadtime or compile time weaving.