Question

I have two classes

AbstractWorkFlow

ProductionWorkFlow 

AbstractWorkFlow has fully implemented method executeWorkFlow which I haven’t overridden in ProductionWorkFlow.

Now I’m adding a Spring AOP to the ProductionWorkFlow.executeWorkFlow method.

<aop:pointcut id="businessService"
         expression="execution(* ProductionWorkFlow.executeWorkFlow())" />
<aop:around pointcut-ref="businessService"  method="log"/>

But even though executionWorkFlow is executed, my aspect doesn’t seem to be triggered. Any idea on this matter.

Answer 1

Try replacing the pointcut to be:

execution(* AbstractWorkflow+.executeWorkflow());

Your advice doesn’t match because, since ProductionWorkFlow does not override executeWorkFlow, execution(* ProductionWorkFlow.executeWorkflow()) does not exist.

If you really want to advise only ProductionWorkFlow, and not other implementations, then change it to:

execution(* AbstractWorkFlow+.executeWorkflow()) && target(ProductionWorkFlow);