My @aspect stopped working!

[sercasti]

Hi guys, I wonder if you can help me, this was working fine for me:

<aop:aspectj-autoproxy/>
<bean id="profileAspect" class="com.xxx.profile.aop.MethodProfiler"/>

@Aspect
public class MethodProfiler {

 @Around(value="@annotation(com.xxx.profile.marker.Profile)")
  public Object profileMethod(ProceedingJoinPoint pjp) throws Throwable {    
    
     ...
  }
}

It has been working fine for the last month (for all methods annotated with @Profile, was printing the time to complete).

Last week it stopped working. It simply died, no errors, no warnings, no nothing, just nothing happens.

I reviewed the changes on the repository of my project, and I found that someone:

1) added the cglib dependency on the classpath
2) replaced an old custom filter with the spring org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterPro xy on the web.xml file
3) added an aop bean to the applicationContext.xml
<bean id="sessionShoppingCart" class="com.xxx.model.ShoppingCart" scope="session">
<aop:scoped-proxy/>
</bean>

It's really difficult for me to rollback each change and see which is affecting the aspect, do you guys have any ideas?

I'm using spring 2.5, and I feel really sad about this. Any help will be appreciated.

[sercasti]

just found out what made it to stop working...

the dispatcher-servlet.xml changed from :

<context:component-scan base-package="com.xxx.controller" />

to

<context:component-scan base-package="com.xxx.*" />
-
and there was the problem... I really dont understand how this context:component-scan works, and why using the wildcard * made my aspect to stop working.