I had the old AspectDeployer running, which explains why I was getting good results :-( Disabling the old POST_CLASSLOADER AspectDeployer, I get no interception. This seems to be because the AnnotationMetaDataDeployer running in the POST_CLASSLOADER stage loads all the classes before the aop metadata beans are deployed by the BeanMetaDataDeployer in the REAL stage. I will try disabling AnnotationMetaDataDeployer for the purposes of my tests. I assume the plan is for this to be upgraded to use Ales's javassist annotation parser? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4152897#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...