I already changed the exception message bit. Do you want me to post a JIRA for that? I wrote a little test program and it had no trouble doing inspection on a private class and then invoking a public method on it: | package org.jboss.cache.notifications; | | import org.jboss.cache.notifications.annotation.CacheListener; | import org.jboss.cache.notifications.annotation.NodeModified; | import org.jboss.cache.notifications.event.NodeModifiedEvent; | | public class Testee | { | public Object getCacheListener() | { | return new InnerClass(); | } | | @CacheListener | private class InnerClass | { | @NodeModified | public void nodeModified(NodeModifiedEvent event) | { | System.out.println("Node modified " + event); | } | | public long getLong() | { | return 0L; | } | } | } | | package org.jboss.cache.notifications; | | import java.lang.reflect.Method; | | import org.jboss.cache.notifications.annotation.CacheListener; | import org.jboss.cache.notifications.annotation.NodeModified; | import org.jboss.cache.notifications.event.EventImpl; | | public class Tester | { | | public static void main(String[] args) | { | Testee testee = new Testee(); | Object listener = testee.getCacheListener(); | | if (!listener.getClass().isAnnotationPresent(CacheListener.class)) | throw new IncorrectCacheListenerException("An Object must have the org.jboss.cache.notifications.annotation.CacheListener annotation to be considered a cache listener, and must be publicly accessible!"); | // now try all methods on the listener for anything that we like. Note that only PUBLIC methods are scanned. | for (Method m : listener.getClass().getMethods()) | { | if (m.isAnnotationPresent(NodeModified.class)) | { | System.out.println("Annotation found"); | try | { | m.invoke(listener, new Object[] { new EventImpl() }); | } | catch (Exception e) | { | e.printStackTrace(System.out); | } | System.out.println("Method invoked"); | return; | } | } | System.out.println("Annotation not found"); | } | } View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4060822#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...