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Spring AOP pointcut on instance creation of a class

I have a class annotated with @Tool. I'd love to run some kind of initializing aspect over it as soon as it is created. I have not found any documentation on how to wire to this particular event.

I thought about annotating the class constructor but that is kinda explicit. I'd love to have some more magic and therefore have a pointcut implicitly like wiring up to the default CTOR usage or something.

Please provide me with some documentation/tutorial since I just cannot find any because I lack on the proper keywords to search for it.

Solution

  • As explained in this similar question, you have to use actual aspectj instead of just spring-aop to intercept constructor calls.