AspectJPointcutAdvisor not Serializable

[leo1]

Hi,

During an attempt to make my web application serializable, I got stuck on AspectJPointcutAdvisor not being serializable by Java's ObjectInputStream:

java.io.NotSerializableException: org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJPointcutAdvisor
	at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java:1156)
	...

My test app uses applicationContext.xml:

<bean name="counter" class="test.CounterImpl" scope="session" />

<aop:config>
	<aop:aspect ref="aspectBean">
		<aop:pointcut id="pointcut" expression="execution(* test.Counter.count())" />
		<aop:around pointcut-ref="pointcut" method="doAround" />
	</aop:aspect>
</aop:config>

<bean id="aspectBean" class="test.SimpleAspect" />

and a trivial implementation of the Counter interface, CounterImpl class, and SimpleAspect:

public interface Counter {
	public int count();
}

public class CounterImpl implements Counter, Serializable {
	private static final long serialVersionUID = 6830705610651059597L;
	private int count;
	public int count() {
		return ++count;
	}
}

public class SimpleAspect implements Serializable {
	private static final long serialVersionUID = 8861294436225901893L;
	public Object doAround(ProceedingJoinPoint pjp) throws Throwable {
		System.out.println("around");
		return pjp.proceed();
	}
}

Btw, there is no exception when running this without serializing it or without the aspect.

Assuming this is not a bug, I wander: How do I combine Spring's AOP with Java's serialization?

My setup uses Spring 3.0.1.RELEASE-A and Tomcat 6.0.24 with default configuration. The remainder of the web application is about as basic as it gets.

Thanks,
Leo

[gleber]

Hi!

I have the same scenario and I couldn't solve this problem yet. I found a similar issue on Spring Jira (https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-6910) but it seems there is not a estimated version to fix this issue. Does anybody have a workaround to solve this issue?

Thanks

Gleber