Inherit Annotation from Interface for pointcutting

[controlix]

Your problem seams to be a Java problem instead of a Spring related problem. What you try to achieve is currently not possible because Java does not support annotation inheritance.

There is however a library that lets you use inherited annotations.

If you want to use this, I guess you will have to write your own implementation of AspectJ pointcut and advice so it uses this library.

Looks like a nice challenge...

[rdohna]

In my first post I pointed out: "Too bad that annotations on interfaces are not inheritable... only class annotations can!!!"

I was hoping that there was some pointcut type that I was not aware of that would help me around this restriction. Obviously there is none.

Just to learn something: Do you have a link as to how to implement my own pointcut type in Spring? Or is Spring not built for this kind of extension, which I would understand very well, but Spring has suprised me many times ;-)