AOP declared without indicating when the advice to be fired

I saw <aop:config> having <aop:pointcut> and <aop:advisor> but there is nothing like <aop:before> / <aop:after> / <aop:around> / <aop:after-returning> / <aop:after-throwing>. Just Wondering at what point of time the advice will be invoked. Any body have any idea on this?

The code is shown below:

Well, it looks like a performance monitor that you wouldn't want running in production, but something you can turn on or off at anytime when you need it.

Maybe they have a console that they can go to to turn it on to run <aop:before>

There is more missing than what was posted. Also in Transactions configured with xml there isn't an <aop:before> etc to configure that. But I don't think that is why in your case.

Mark

Mark, This code is logging the amount of time taken to execute each method. There is a single method called "invokeUnderTrace(final MethodInvocation invocation, final Logger logger)" in the "PerformanceInterceptor", which is being called. I did not turn ON anything. Is there any thing like default method which gets called when neither of this <aop:before> / <aop:after> / <aop:around> / <aop:after-returning> / <aop:after-throwing> is given??

Naresh Shanmugam wrote:Mark, This code is logging the amount of time taken to execute each method. There is a single method called "invokeUnderTrace(final MethodInvocation invocation, final Logger logger)" in the "PerformanceInterceptor", which is being called. I did not turn ON anything. Is there any thing like default method which gets called when neither of this <aop:before> / <aop:after> / <aop:around> / <aop:after-returning> / <aop:after-throwing> is given??

I think the term interceptor gives you your answer. You are intercepting calls with an Interceptor.

Mark

Mark,

You mean to say since we are using PerformanceMonitorInterceptor the "intercept()" method in it would be called automatically.
Please correct me if I am wrong.