Advice not getting executed

[pramod talekar]

Hello,
I'm trying to execute an advice using aop.

These are my classes :
MyAdvice class

import org.aspectj.lang.JoinPoint;

public class MyAdvice {

public void simpleBeforeAdvice(JoinPoint joinpoint, int intValue) {
		if (intValue != 100) {
		System.out.println("Test.......");
		System.out.println("Executing: " + joinpoint.getSignature().getDeclaringTypeName() + " "
				+ joinpoint.getSignature().getName());
		}
		
	}
}

MyBean class

public class MyBean {
	
private MyDependency dep;
	
	public void execute() {
		dep.foo(100);
		dep.foo(101);
		dep.bar();
	}

	public void setDep(MyDependency dep) {
		this.dep = dep;
	}
}

MyDependency class

public class MyDependency {
	public void foo(int intValue) {
		System.out.println("foo(int): " + intValue);
	}
	
	public void bar() {
		System.out.println("bar()");
	}
}

servlet-context.xml

<aop:config>
		<aop:pointcut id="fooExecution"
			expression="execution(* com.apress.prospring3.ch7..foo*(int)) and bean(myDependency*) and args(intValue)"
			 />

		<aop:aspect ref="advice">
			<aop:before pointcut-ref="fooExecution" method="simpleBeforeAdvice" />
		</aop:aspect>

	</aop:config>

	<beans:bean id="advice" class="com.apress.prospring3.ch7.aopns.MyAdvice"></beans:bean>
	<beans:bean id="myDependency"
		class="com.apress.prospring3.ch7.aopns.MyDependency"></beans:bean>
	<beans:bean id="myBean" class="com.apress.prospring3.ch7.aopns.MyBean">
		<beans:property name="dep" ref="myDependency"></beans:property>
	</beans:bean>

AopNamespaceExample (Test class)

public class AopNamespaceExample {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		GenericXmlApplicationContext ctx = new GenericXmlApplicationContext();
		ctx.load("classpath:/appServlet/servlet-context.xml");
		MyBean bean = (MyBean)ctx.getBean("myBean");
		bean.execute();
	}
}

The output is

INFO : org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader - Loading XML bean definitions from class path resource [appServlet/servlet-context.xml]
INFO : org.springframework.context.annotation.ClassPathBeanDefinitionScanner - JSR-330 'javax.inject.Named' annotation found and supported for component scanning
foo(int): 100
foo(int): 101
bar()

Eclipse also displays the pointers that MyDependency class has been advised by the simpleBeforeAdvice method.

Please advise.

[Mark Spritzler]

Have you tried to debug your code through the debugger and set a break point at the line calling the method in the main() method. In the first line of the Advice method, and on the first line of the real class target. And step through and see where things land.

Mark