topic How to configure alfresco for Spring AOP in Alfresco Archive

How to configure alfresco for Spring AOP

amitnerkar — Wed, 12 May 2010 13:18:35 GMT

Hi,I have an Alfresco project already running. I needed to configure Spring AOP in Alfresco application. I have created a Spring-AOP-context.xml where all the aop configuration is done.The Spring-AOP-context.xml is as follows:<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><beans xmlns="http://www.sp

Re: How to configure alfresco for Spring AOP

cosminaru — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:47:38 GMT

Hi,

I am struggling with exactly the same thing. Did you find a way around this?

Thanks,
Cosmin

Re: How to configure alfresco for Spring AOP

cosminaru — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:56:14 GMT

I think I found the problem. Is actually a Spring issue:

http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.0.x/reference/aop.html - scroll to 6.3. Schema-based AOP support:
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Warning

The <aop:config> style of configuration makes heavy use of Spring's auto-proxying mechanism. This can cause issues (such as advice not being woven) if you are already using explicit auto-proxying via the use of BeanNameAutoProxyCreator or suchlike. The recommended usage pattern is to use either just the <aop:config> style, or just the AutoProxyCreator style.
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And there is actually a BeanNameAutoProxyCreator in the Alfresco config (and probably other auto-proxying stuff) - so the <aop:config> is a no-no in this case.