Spring AOP Advice on Annotated Controllers

Question

I am trying to use AOP to do some processing after an annotated controller. Everything is running with no errors, but the advice is not being executed.

Here is the

Answer 1

I had the same problem where advice for Repository was working, but advice for Controller was not. Finally I found a solution. In short, you need to make sure your AOP definition is loaded in Servlet context, not a different context.

In my case, my Spring AOP definition is defined in tools-config.xml. After moving it from here

    contextConfigLocation
    classpath:spring/tools-config.xml



    org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener

to here,

    petclinic
    org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
    
        contextConfigLocation
        classpath:spring/mvc-core-config.xml, classpath:spring/tools-config.xml
    
    1

the advice for Controller is working.