Hi,

I am new to AOP and am currently running into problenm when trying to implement a custom aspect (interceptor) on JBoss 4.0.4GA.

I have already managed to write a working Interceptor by actually coding it inside the bean with the @AroundInvoke, but now i want to implement it like demonstrated here http://docs.jboss.org/jbossas/jboss4guide/r3/html/aop.chapt.html with having a .jar (custom Aspect) file, and jboss-aop.xml file in the deploy directoy, and annotation the method in the bean. The problem i am currently having is that it never seems to fire.

TestInterrup.java (aspect interace)

package com.jboss.aspect;

import java.lang.annotation.Target;
import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;

@Target({ElementType.METHOD})
public @interface TestInterrupt {}

TestInterruptAspect.java

package com.jboss.aspect;

//import the relevant aop libs
import org.jboss.aop.joinpoint.Invocation;

public class TestInterruptAspect {

 public Object testInterrupt(Invocation invocation)throws Throwable{

 //test print
 System.out.println("**** Interrupt fired successfully ****");

 return invocation.invokeNext();
 }

}

jboss-aop.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<aop>
 <aspect class="com.jboss.aspect.TestInterruptAspect"
 scope="PER_VM"/>

 <bind pointcut="execution(* *->@com.jboss.aspect.TestInterrupt(*))">
 <advice name="testInterrupt"
 aspect="com.jboss.aspect.TestInterruptAspect"/>
 </bind>
</aop>

Can anyone offer me any advice on how to solve the problem of it not firing on method invocation ?

Thanks in advance,

Andy