Method-level interceptors & callback methods

[rododendro.ivan]

Hello,
we're running under JBAS 5CR2 and it seems that callback methods on Interceptors are not called if the interceptor is declared method-level on the EJB.

public class MyInterceptor {

 @PostConstruct
 public void init(InvocationContext c) {
 // do some stuff
 }

}

@Stateless
public class MyBean implements MyRemote {

 @Interceptors(MyInterceptor.class)
 public void myMethod {
 // do some business stuff
 }
}

So init() method of interceptor class is never called.

If I declare the same interceptor as a class-level, init() method is correctly called.

From what I can understand from EJB3 Spec and jboss docs, externals interceptor should have always the same lifecycle (which is tied to bean's lifecycle) no matter if they are declared class-level or method-level.

Am I wrong? Is there already a bug on JIRA ?

Thanks
Ivan

[jaikiran]

Found this in the spec (section 12.7 page 309, footnote [57]):

Method-level interceptor are used to specify business method interceptor methods. If an interceptor class that is used as a method-level interceptor defines lifecycle callback interceptor methods, those lifecycle callback interceptor methods are not invoked

[rododendro.ivan]

Thank you jaikiran, even if do not understand why they did it this way.

Ivan