Not firing Pointcut

[villaruzeric]

AOP Newbie question, so your patience appreciated...

I want to trace my Controllers in my web application. So I created the beginings of my Aspect class.
com.villaruz.tipunan.web is the package where my controllers are.

package com.villaruz.tipunan.utilities;

import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.aspectj.lang.JoinPoint;
import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Aspect;
import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Before;
import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Pointcut;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

@Component
@Aspect
public class TraceLoggerAspect{
	/** Logger for this class and subclasses */
    protected final Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(getClass());
    
    
    @Pointcut("execution(* com.villaruz.tipunan.web..*.*(..))")    
    public void trace(){
    	logger.info("~*~*~* In TraceLogger.trace() ~*~*~*");
    }
    
    @Before("trace()")
    public void log(JoinPoint joinPoint){
    	logger.info("~*~*~* In TraceLogger.log() ~*~*~* Before calling " + 
    			joinPoint.getSignature().getName() 
				+ " with argument " + joinPoint.getArgs()[0]);
    }

}

On my <webAppName>-servlet.xml file I let the component be scanned.

<context:component-scan base-package="com.villaruz.tipunan.utilities"/>

On my application.xml file I have:

<aop:aspectj-autoproxy/>

On application startup, I do see the bean created.
However, upon execution of any of my Controller, I do not see the Aspect intercepting.

Any help is appreciated.

[ramnivas]

You need a bean definition corresponding to your aspect.

-Ramnivas

[villaruzeric]

Hi,
I do see my Aspect Bean created as part of the ApplicationContext startup.

[org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory] - Pre-instantiating singletons in ...,traceLoggerAspect

As it is defined for component scan

<context:component-scan base-package="com.villaruz.tipunan.utilities"/>

What am I missing?

Thanks,
Eric

[Andrei Stefan]

None of the methods in your controller gets intercepted ?
http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=59506

[villaruzeric]

Andrei

Yes, not a single method is intercepted.
I thought I dotted my i's and crossed my t's. This seems to be a very simple implementation, but I could not seem to figure out what is failing.

Hope someone shed some light on this.

-eric

[ramnivas]

I reread your aspect and nothing seems to stand out. What happens when you widen your pointcut to, say,

execution(* com.villaruz.tipunan..*.*(..))

-Ramnivas