Aspectj and catching private or inner methods

Question

I\'ve configureg AspectJ with Spring and it works fine when \"catching\" public methods called from out of the class. Now I want do something like this:

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Answer 1

Yes it is easy to catch private methods with AspectJ.

An example that prints a sentence before all private methods:

 @Pointcut("execution(private * *(..))")
 public void anyPrivateMethod() {}

 @Before("anyPrivateMethod()")
 public void beforePrivateMethod(JoinPoint jp) {
     System.out.println("Before a private method...");
 }

If you are familiar with Eclipse, I recommend to develop AspectJ with STS or only install the AJDT plugin.

More information about Spring AOP capabilities can be found in the Spring reference documentation here.