Question

I cannot understand why advice @After is applied instead of @AfterThrowing in this situation:

    @Pointcut("execution(* componentB.Bye.run())")
    public void newThread(){
    }

    @After("newThread()")
    public void cokolwiek2(JoinPoint joinPoint){
        report(joinPoint);
    }

    @AfterThrowing(pointcut="newThread()",throwing="e")
public void itsAFoo(JoinPoint joinPoint, RemoteException e) {
        logger.error(joinPoint.getSignature().toLongString() + " exception here!");
}

I am sure that exception is thrown in:

public String greeting(String c) throws RemoteException,
        InterruptedException {
    throw new RemoteException();
    //return "Good morning!";
}

But there is no log with exception here!

Answer 1

The pointcut execution(* componentB.Bye.run()) doesn’t cover method public String greeting(String c).

The difference between @After and @AfterThrowing is that @AfterThrowing is called only when an exception occurred, while @After is called either if an exception was thrown or the method returned successfully. So if there is an exception and you have both advises, both of them will be executed.