Advising components not managed by spring

[springnovice]

I have component which is not managed by Spring Container. It is created using new from third party library. I want intercept some of these component methods. I have read the documentation for LTW and it says to annotate the component with @Configurable and then this will eligible for Spring driven configuration . But I have no control over this component to annotate it.
How can I intercept such component methods?

[Marten Deinum]

Use loadtimeweaving @Configurable isn't needed for using loadtimeweaving.

I advice you to read about the different weaving options (runtime, loadtime, compile) then you notice you don't need @Configurable.

[springnovice]

Marten,
Thx for the response. I was going thru the document, but not successful in finding what I need. Can you point me the link?

For instance, let's say I'm using a third party library and one of their classes uses javax.jms.TopicSession. Now I want to intercept these session methods and my provide my own behavior in my interceptor class (SessionAOPInterceptor).

This is my sample config file.

<aop:config>
	<aop:aspect id="myAspect" ref="SessionInterceptordvice">
	<aop:pointcut id="myPointCut" expression="execution(* javax.jms.Session.*(..))"/>
	<aop:around pointcut-ref="myPointCut" method="createCustomTopic"/>
	</aop:aspect>
</aop:config>

<bean name="SessionInterceptordvice" class="com.gtech.aop.SessionAOPInterceptor"> </bean>

[Marten Deinum]

As stated before use 'loadtimeweaving' chapter 6 of the reference guide explains quite clearly on how to set it up.

You are currently not using loadtimeweaving but a proxy based approach.

[springnovice]

Thx for pointing me to the correct location in spring ref document. It works now with loadtimeweaving.

Is there a way where I can set some custom properties in the aspect class when using LTW?

For instance, using proxy approach I was setting some of the required properties on the Aspect as below

<bean name="SessionInterceptordvice" class="com.gtech.aop.SessionAOPInterceptor"> 
  <property name="requiredProperty" value="testValue"/>
</bean>

Now my aspect looks like below when using LTW. How can I invoke setRequiredProperty() method? I need this property to be set before customeCreateDestination() is invoked? Any ideas?

@Aspect
public class SessionAOPIntercepto {

	private String requiredProperty;
	
	@Around("methodsToBeProfiled()")
	public Object customCreateDestination(ProceedingJoinPoint call) throws Throwable { 
         //method implementation here
        }

        public void setRequiredProperty(String requiredProperty) {
		this.requiredProperty = requiredProperty;
	}

       @Pointcut("execution(public * javax.jms.Session.create*(..))")
	public void methodsToBeProfiled(){}
}

[Marten Deinum]

Like anyother spring bean.... Simply configure it.