That indeed seems to be the problem. I have not looked at it since (too busy) but it is definitely something worth looking at.

regards, N

I have not looked very deep into this issue but it looks like it might be related to the same problem as described here: http://olafsblog.sysbsb.de/?p=35
The first response links to the spring docs where it is described how it can be solved using aspectj.

The docs show how you can create aspectj aspects with spring and use the @Annotation in aspect bean with a @Aspect to intercept methods that contain a given annotation.

The docs also show how it is compatible with @Configurable.

http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/reference/aop.html#aop-using-aspectj

Let me know if you can’t figure out and I will look further into it as it is interesting to me as well. If you do find it and you feel like sharing feel free to post it as comment.

Thanks

And got
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Post-processor tried to replace bean instance of type [...] with (proxy) object of type [$Proxy78] – not supported for aspect-configured classes!

Seems that your solution does not really work to well with code that uses the Spring @Configurable annotation. Any ideas how to get round that?

@Configurable
Xyz {
@Autowired(required = true)
private OtherService otherService;

@Timer
public void timedMethod() {
}
}