EJB3 Interceptor never called - how to debug?

[tynor]

I am trying to add an ejb3 interceptor, but can't even get a simple one to run. From my reading of the docs, I should be able to just add the Interceptor annotations and be off and running, but my interceptor functions never run. Here's the interceptor class:

public class MyInterceptor {

 @PostConstruct
 public void postConstruct(InvocationContext invocation) {
 try {
 Object target = invocation.getTarget();

 System.err.println("In PostConstruct MyInterceptor for " + target);
 invocation.proceed();
 } catch (Exception ex) {
 log.error("Error in PostConstruct MyInterceptor", ex);
 }
 }

 @AroundInvoke
 public void aroundInvoke(InvocationContext invocation) {
 try {
 Object target = invocation.getTarget();

 System.err.println("In AroundInvoke MyInterceptor for " + target);
 invocation.proceed();
 } catch (Exception ex) {
 log.error("Error in AroundInvoke MyInterceptor", ex);
 }
 }
}

I've tried annotating both the class and a method thusly:

@Interceptors(MyInterceptor.class)
@Entity
@Table(name = "client")
public class Client implements java.io.Serializable {
...
 @Interceptors(MyInterceptor.class)
 public void setName(String name) {
 System.err.println("In setName");
 this.name = name;
 }

and specifically call the setName() method, but neither of my interceptor functions ever fire. No errors in the log. Can anyone spot what I've done wrong? Better yet, how can I debug this?

Seam 1.2.1-GA
JBoss AS 4.2.1

Thanks!

[jc7442]

For EJB entities:

Use @EntityListener annotation with @PrePersist, @PostPersist, @PreRemove
@PostRemove, @PreUpdate, @PostUpdate, @PostLoad


@Interceptors works fine for session bean and MDB. I'm not sure it is supposed to works for entity

[tynor]

Thanks - that's exactly right. It's unfortunate that there this disparity between the inteceptor/listener interfaces -- I'd planned to use the
the interceptor InvocationContext's contextData map to store some object-level state. I'll have to rethink since the EntityListener doesn't pass a context - only the entity Object.

For EJB entities:

Use @EntityListener annotation with @PrePersist, @PostPersist, @PreRemove
@PostRemove, @PreUpdate, @PostUpdate, @PostLoad


@Interceptors works fine for session bean and MDB. I'm not sure it is supposed to works for entity

[jc7442]

Hibernate interceptor are a little easier to use. But that's not EJB3, that's hibernate specific