AOP advices not getting fired

[ranadheer]

Hi i am trying the below sample AOP application . the application not throwing any exceptions but the AOP advices not getting called
here the sample code follows
sampleAOP.xml is in C: drive(its getting loaded, no issue in loading)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd
          http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop 
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.0.xsd">         
  <bean id="quest"
      class="SampleAOP.HolyGrailQuest" />

  <bean id="knight"
      class="SampleAOP.KnightOfTheRoundTable">
    <constructor-arg value="Ranadheer" />

    <property name="quest" ref="quest" />
  </bean>

  <bean id="minstrel"
      class="SampleAOP.Minstrel"/>

  <aop:config>
    <aop:aspect ref="minstrel">

      <aop:pointcut
          id="questPointcut"
          expression="execution(* *.embarkOnQuest(..)) and target(bean)" />

      <aop:before
          method="singBefore"
          pointcut-ref="questPointcut" 
          arg-names="bean" />

      <aop:after-returning
          method="singAfter"
          pointcut-ref="questPointcut" 
          arg-names="bean" />
    </aop:aspect>
  </aop:config>

</beans>

HolyGrail.java

package SampleAOP;

public class HolyGrail {

public void found(){
	System.out.println("The Grail is Found,Hahahaha.................");
}
}

HolyGrailQuest.java

package SampleAOP;

public class HolyGrailQuest implements Quest {

	public HolyGrail embark() {
		
		return new HolyGrail();
	}
}

Knight.java

package SampleAOP;
public interface Knight {
HolyGrail embarkOnQuest();
}

KnightOfTheRoundTable.java

package SampleAOP;

public class KnightOfTheRoundTable implements Knight{

	private String name;
	private Quest quest;
	public KnightOfTheRoundTable(String name){
		this.name=name;	
	}
	public HolyGrail embarkOnQuest() {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		return quest.embark();
	}
	public void setQuest(Quest quest){
		this.quest=quest;
	}


}

Minstrel.java

package SampleAOP;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

public class Minstrel {
private static final Logger SONG=Logger.getLogger(Minstrel.class);
public void singBefore(Knight knight){
	System.out.println("is so brave");
}
public void singAfter(Knight knight){
	System.out.println("did embark on the grail");
	}
}

Quest.java

package SampleAOP;

public interface Quest {
abstract HolyGrail embark();
}

and i dont know how to run the application, so i have written class MainClass and invoking all possible beans like below, and when i debug i am going through all the code except Minstrel object methods, supposed object to fire methods
MainClass.java

package SampleAOP;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanFactory;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.core.io.FileSystemResource;

public class MainClass {

	/**
	 * @param args
	 */
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		BeanFactory fact=new XmlBeanFactory(new FileSystemResource("\\SampleAOP.xml"));
		Minstrel m=(Minstrel) fact.getBean("minstrel");
		Knight k=(Knight)fact.getBean("knight");
		HolyGrail HG=k.embarkOnQuest();
		HG.found();
	}

}

please some body help me
Regards
R

[Marten Deinum]

Use an ApplicationContext instead of a BeanFactory. Why read this

[ranadheer]

Thanks a lot. its working with Application Context.
i will be going through that document