I have most of this working, but need a bit of guidance on where to take it further. The way it currently works is that you deploy similar xml to -aop.xml in a -beans.xml, for example: | <deployment xmlns="urn:jboss:bean-deployer:2.0"> | | <bean name="AspectManager" class="org.jboss.aop.AspectManager"> | <constructor factoryClass="org.jboss.aop.AspectManager" factoryMethod="instance"/> | </bean> | | <interceptor xmlns="urn:jboss:aop-beans:1.0" class="org.jboss.test.microcontainer.beans.TestInterceptor"/> | | <bind xmlns="urn:jboss:aop-beans:1.0" pointcut="execution(* org.jboss.test.microcontainer.beans.POJO->*(..))"> | <interceptor-ref name="org.jboss.test.microcontainer.beans.TestInterceptor"/> | </bind> | | <bean name="Bean" class="org.jboss.test.microcontainer.beans.POJO"/> | | </deployment> | More examples can be found in http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/microcontainer/trunk/aop-.... The *BeansTestCase.xml files show the underlying beans, while the *AopTestCase.xml files show the -aop.xml style configuration. 1) Am I ok using -beans.xml files for this? Or should I be using -aop.xml? If so, how do the -aop.xml files get recognised by the deployer that deploys -beans.xml files? I think that means scrapping the AspectDeployer? 2) I will probably need to do something similar for aspects configured via annotations. So we might need the AspectDeployer anyway. I should be able to easily create the BeanMetaDataFactory from the annotations, but what would the entry point of getting these beans into the MC be? 3) Is adding the ManagedObject/Operation stuff my task? How do I test that I am exposing the right stuff? 4) With the current xml it is by default looking for an org.jboss.aop.AspectManager called "AspectManager" (as shown in the example above), in AS 5 this does not exist, so instead we need to do (from http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/trunk/testsuite/src/resources/aop/...: | <deployment xmlns="urn:jboss:bean-deployer:2.0"> | | <aop:aspect xmlns:aop="urn:jboss:aop-beans:1.0" | name="DependencyAdvice" | class="org.jboss.test.aop.mcdefaultannotation.AnnotationReaderInterceptor" | manager-bean="AspectManager" | manager-property="aspectManager"> | </aop:aspect> | | <aop:bind xmlns:aop="urn:jboss:aop-beans:1.0" | pointcut="execution(* @org.jboss.test.aop.mcdefaultannotation.TestAnnotation->getAnnotationValue())" | manager-bean="AspectManager" | manager-property="aspectManager"> | <aop:interceptor-ref name="DependencyAdvice"/> | </aop:bind> | ... | </deployment> | i.e. we need to specify the manager-bean and manager-property attributes, which isn't ideal. I'd like to configure the name of where to find this somehow, maybe at the deployer level? Alternatively, something like: | <deployment xmlns="urn:jboss:bean-deployer:2.0"> | <aop:manager name="AspectManager" property="aspectManager"/> | <aop:aspect xmlns:aop="urn:jboss:aop-beans:1.0" | name="DependencyAdvice" | class="org.jboss.test.aop.mcdefaultannotation.AnnotationReaderInterceptor"> | </aop:aspect> | | <aop:bind xmlns:aop="urn:jboss:aop-beans:1.0" | pointcut="execution(* @org.jboss.test.aop.mcdefaultannotation.TestAnnotation->getAnnotationValue())"> | <aop:interceptor-ref name="DependencyAdvice"/> | </aop:bind> | ... | </deployment> | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4125127#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...