Hooking into Spring weaving

[gregturn]

@Aspect
public void MyClass {
    @AnnotationMatchingPointcut(MyCustomAdvice.class)
    public void method() {}

over:

@Aspect
public void MyClass {
    @Pointcut("@annotation(MyCustomAdvice")
    public void method() {}

This thread has caught my attention because I have written a couple of aspects that are based on custom annotations. I am intrigued by @AnnotationMatchingPointcut. Unfortunately, AnnotationMatchingPointcut is NOT an annotation. You can't use it that way. I just tried, out of freak hope that it would work, and Eclipse is puking all over that. It appears you can res it up inside an appContext.xml file, but I don't see how to plug it in to @AspectJ.

So far, I have

 	@Around("execution(@my.package.app.annotations.Timed * *(..))")
	public Object calculatePerformance(ProceedingJoinPoint jp) throws Throwable {

And yes, I have a unit test to make sure my aspect works and that my point cut works.

[johras]

Sorry if I was not clear, I did not mean that I am doing that, I meant that
I would like it to work that way.

If it worked, it world mean the world to me ;-)
Since it does not work (and thats reason for this thread), I have been testing to do some stuff with Springs AOP support using a custom BeanPostProcessor to advice my classes which actually works ok but you don´t get it out of the box.

Using @Aspect, i think your approach is the the one to use, or ("@annotation(my.package.app.annotations.Timed) " ).