Create custom annotation

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target(ElementType.METHOD)
public @interface LogHandler

Annotate EJB method

@Stateless
@Remote(Hello.class)
public class HelloBean implements Hello
{
@LogHandler
public String sayHello(String name)

{ return "Hello from HelloEJB " + name + "!"; }

public String sayBye(String name)

{ System.out.println(sayHello(name)); return "Goodbye from HelloEJB " + name + "!"; }

}

Create AOP interceptor

public class HandlerInterceptor implements Interceptor
{
public String getName()

{ return "HandlerAOPInterceptor"; }

public Object invoke(Invocation invocation) throws Throwable

{ System.out.println("################## invoke() called"); MethodInvocation tmp = (MethodInvocation) invocation; Object[] arguments = new String[2]; arguments[0] = "CHANGEDBYINTERCEPTOR"; tmp.setArguments(arguments); return invocation.invokeNext(); }

}

jboss-aop.xml is

<aop xmlns="urn:jboss:aop-beans:1.0">
<interceptor name="HandlerAOPInterceptor" class="org.jboss.samples.aop.HandlerInterceptor" scope="PER_VM"/>

<bind pointcut="all(@org.jboss.ws.samples.annotations.LogHandler)">
<interceptor-ref name="HandlerAOPInterceptor" />
</bind>
</aop>

Deployed to EAP 5.0. Access the EJB from remote client:

Hello myService = (Hello)ctx.lookup("HelloBean/remote");
String result = myService.sayHello("EJB");

AOP pointcut is not executed. Whereas when calling second method, that calls the annotated method internally, the pointcut is executed.