[Springframework-developer] Creating CGLib objects in Spring (not Proxies)

[Bryant H. <bry...@ho...>]

Hi,
  I had an idea for using annotations to mark various methods in our =
business tier as corresponding to various business events =
(milestones)... ala something like this.

public class MyClass {
   public void someMethod() {
        method1();
        method2();
   }

   @BusinessMilestone(description=3D"...");
   protected void method1() {
       ...
   }

   @BusinessMilestone(description=3D"...");
   protected void method2() {
      ...
   }
}

The idea is to use the annotations to specify the point cuts where I can =
inject some auditing advice to record these milestones.  I thought this =
would be a real quick way for us to specify this sort of thing.  My only =
problem is it won't work with any sort of proxying mechanism.  If you =
use a proxy, only an external call to 'someMethod' would go through the =
proxy.  The internal calls to method1 and method2 (the ones that would =
need interception to apply the advice) won't go through the proxy.

So what I need is not a CGlib proxy, but an actual CGLib enhanced object =
where the point cuts are baked in to my actual object so that I can =
apply the advice.
Is there a way in Spring to accomplish something like this?

Thanks,

Bryant