I'm still not having any luck. I've stripped down the original .aop file from the example and put the SimpleInterceptor class in it's own jar file without a META-INF/jboss-aop.xml file. I have put this jar in the jboss-aop-jdk50.deployer directory. I then added the following to the base-aop.xml file inside the jboss-aop-jdk50.deployer directory: ... | | <aspect class="org.jboss.aspects.tx.TransactionLocalAspect" scope="PER_JOINPOINT"/> | <bind pointcut="field(* *-&gt;(a)org.jboss.aspects.tx.TxLocal)&quot;&gt; | <advice name="access" aspect="org.jboss.aspects.tx.TransactionLocalAspect"/> | </bind> | | <bind pointcut="execution(* org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.TomcatDeployer->performDeploy(..))"> | <interceptor class="org.jboss.injbossaop.lib.SimpleInterceptor" scope="PER_VM"/> | </bind> | | </aop> It still doesn't seem to pick up Tomcat deployment. As far as I can tell this point-cut should be deployed before the web deployer now. Is there some other reason why it might not be working? Thanks, Steve View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4094227#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...