Spring Aspect not executed when defined in other JAR

Question

I have a project consisting of two subprojects which are both Spring projects and have an applicationContext.xml each.

One is a framework project (which ends up as

Answer 1

I think you need to make your aspect a component to have it recognised by spring:

http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.2.x/spring-framework-reference/html/aop.html#aop-at-aspectj

Autodetecting aspects through component scanning

You may register aspect classes as regular beans in your Spring XML configuration, or autodetect them through classpath scanning - just like any other Spring-managed bean. However, note that the @Aspect annotation is not sufficient for autodetection in the classpath: For that purpose, you need to add a separate @Component annotation (or alternatively a custom stereotype annotation that qualifies, as per the rules of Spring's component scanner).