Yes, this solves the problem. Sorry about that. Thanks for the reply, I thought I was misunderstanding something substantial about the pointcut language since I am having problems with interceptors not begin fired on methods called from within a bean. (I have just posted a description of this problem in another thread in this forum). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3957535#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...