How to intercept static methods in Spring?

Question

Subject line basically says it all. I have a static method I want to intercept so that around advice can be applied to it. I can get this to work with any non-static methods

Answer 1

You can't do that with Spring AOP, because it is proxy based. You have to use AspectJ. Take a look at this simple example: http://blog.jayway.com/2007/02/16/static-mock-using-aspectj/

Answer 2

See PowerMock https://github.com/powermock/powermock it can mock static methods

Taken from the blog post comment from LIMC's answer