Within only works in conjunction with caller pointcuts (which you should not use unless you have to! i.e. you re advising system classes). Also, in some cases you might want to allow for weaving of the aspects. One way to make sure that your aspect is not woven is by implementing the org.jboss.aop.instrument.Untransformable marker interface. This will avoid the recursion View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3961840#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...