title: How can I combine @Aspect with @Controller in Spring 3?
body: <p>I'm trying to setup a Spring 3 Web MVC project, using the @Controller, annotation-based approach.</p>
  
  <pre><code>package my.package
  
  @Controller
  @RequestMapping("/admin/*")
  public class AdminMultiActionController {
  
  @RequestMapping(value = "admin.htm", method = RequestMethod.GET)
  public String showAdminSection() {
      return "admin";
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My dispatcher-servlet has the following Controller handlers:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;context:component-scan base-package="my.package" /&gt;
  &lt;bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping" /&gt;
  &lt;bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The webapp is running good with the supplied maven artifacts:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;dependency&gt;
  &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
  &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-webmvc&lt;/artifactId&gt;
  &lt;version&gt;3.0.2.RELEASE&lt;/version&gt;
  &lt;/dependency&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now I wanted to add @AspectJ AOP. I got the libs:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;dependency&gt;
  &lt;groupId&gt;org.aspectj&lt;/groupId&gt;
  &lt;artifactId&gt;aspectjweaver&lt;/artifactId&gt;
  &lt;version&gt;1.6.9&lt;/version&gt;
  &lt;/dependency&gt;
  &lt;dependency&gt;
  &lt;groupId&gt;org.aspectj&lt;/groupId&gt;
  &lt;artifactId&gt;aspectjrt&lt;/artifactId&gt;
  &lt;version&gt;1.6.9&lt;/version&gt;
  &lt;/dependency&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>added to my applicationContext.xml:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;aop:aspectj-autoproxy/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Made sure to create the relevant bean in the applicationContext.xml as well:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;bean id="securityInterceptor" class="my.package.service.SecurityInterceptor"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And started fleshing out the @Aspect:</p>
  
  <pre><code>package my.package.service
  
  @Aspect
  public class SecurityInterceptor {
  
  @Pointcut("execution(* showAdminSection(..))")// the pointcut expression
  private void foo() {
      System.out.println("fooo");
  }// the pointcut signature
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now this is where it stopped working.
  "fooo" is never printed.</p>
  
  <p>Could it be, because the pointcutted (spelling?) objects must be spring-managed beans and my @Controller in combination with the DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping is not perceived as such?</p>
  
  <p>Any help would be appreciated. If I forgot to include any information, please ask.
  Hope someone can help me out here.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks a lot!</p>