Autowiring a Bean into an Aspect

[NormElton]

I'd like to autowire a spring-managed bean into an Aspect. The following works like a champ:

@Aspect
@Configurable
public class PointWrapper {
   @Autowired
   private JobSupport job_support;

   (point-cuts-here)
}

I realized that I need to define a privileged aspect, which is not supported in @AspectJ. So I converted back to the retro AspectJ notation:

@Configurable
public privileged aspect PointWrapper {
   @Autowired
   private JobSupport job_support;

   (point-cuts-here)
}

Problem is, this second syntax doesn't seem to work. I get a NullPointerException when referring to job_support. Is there a hack to make @Configurable / @Autowired work with old-school aspects?

Thanks

Norman

[ramnivas]

It seems that you don't need @Configurable in this case. Just instantiating the aspect as the following should do the trick (assuming that you have enabled autowiring):

Note the factory-of attribute.

<bean class="mypackage.PointWrapper" factory-method="aspectOf"/>

-Ramnivas

[NormElton]

Perfect, thanks!!