AOP Exception Handling

[jkahn117]

I am new to AOP and have been trying to create an AOP-based exception handling framework for my application. I know this question has been asked in these forums before, but I have not been able to determine why exceptions thrown in the code are not being logged. Essentially, I am just trying to log all exceptions that are thrown in the com.foo.bar package.

Configuration:

<bean id="errorHandler" class="com.foo.bar.arch.error.ErrorHandler"/>
<aop:aspectj-autoproxy/>
<aop:config>
	<aop:after-throwing
			pointcut="within(com.foo.bar..*)"
			throwing="exception" method="processError"/>
	</aop:aspect>
</aop:config>

ErrorHandler:

public final class ErrorHandler
{
    ...
    public void processError(JoinPoint logged, MyException exception)
    {
        logger.error(exception.getCause().getMessage());
    } 
    ... 
}

In order to test this, I am simply throwing a MyException in my test code:

public void testAOPErrorHandling()
{
        try
        {
            throw new MyException("something");
        }
        catch(MyException e)
        {
            // do something
        }
}

Am I incorrect in catching the exception here? My understanding was that it would still be logged.

Thanks!