I have an issue in which a 3rd party control is attempting to access a bean property of a conversation state bean during the decode phase. This property returns null (which the 3rd party control hates) when there is no conversation. So I thought that I would add a custom method interceptor on the get property method to check if the conversation is active and if not, immediately invoke the navigation handler (unlike the @Conversational which doesn't change the navigation for non-action methods).

After developing it, it almost looks like Seam 1.0.1 doesn't support custom method-level interceptors on POJOs. Is this true?

Here is my code:
Bean class:

@Name("editReportBean")
@Scope(ScopeType.CONVERSATION)
public class EditReportBean
{
 ...
 @ConversationRequired(ifNotBegunOutcome="return.report.list")
 public TreeModel getAvailTreeModel()
 {
 return this.availTreeModel;
 }

Interceptor:

@Target({TYPE, METHOD})
@Retention(RUNTIME)
@Interceptors(ConversationRequiredInterceptor.class)
public @interface ConversationRequired
{
 /**
 * The JSF outcome if the component is invoked outside
 * of the scope of its conversation
 */
 String ifNotBegunOutcome();
}

The interceptor implementation:

@Around({BijectionInterceptor.class,
 ValidationInterceptor.class,
 ConversationInterceptor.class})
@Within({RemoveInterceptor.class})
public class ConversationRequiredInterceptor
{
 @AroundInvoke
 public Object ensureActiveConversation(InvocationContext invocation)
 throws Exception
 {
 Method method = invocation.getMethod();

 if (!Manager.instance().isLongRunningConversation())
 {
 String outcome = method.getAnnotation(ConversationRequired.class).ifNotBegunOutcome();
 FacesContext context = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
 context.getApplication().getNavigationHandler().handleNavigation(context,
 null, outcome);
 throw new AbortProcessingException();
 }

 return invocation.proceed();
 }
}

The "ensureActiveConversation" method of the interceptor implementation class is never invoked.

Is this possible? What else can I do to stop this (I will probably put a work around in, but would like to know if I can get custom interceptors to work on POJO methods).

Thanks,
ANdrew