Kabir, I just downloaded AOP 1.5.3 and I'm still seeing the same behavior on my test case...here is the verbose output when running the testcase | [debug] Passed in instrumentor: null | [debug] Defaulting instrumentor to: org.jboss.aop.instrument.ClassicInstrumentor | [debug] jboss.aop.class.path: /workspace/aop-problem/src/java | [debug] Looking for aspects in: testcase.ZImpl | [debug] Looking for aspects in: testcase.B | [debug] Looking for aspects in: testcase.MyFieldAnnotation | [debug] Looking for aspects in: testcase.A | [debug] Looking for aspects in: testcase.Main | [debug] Looking for aspects in: testcase.MyFieldInterceptor | [debug] Found @InterceptorDef in: testcase.MyFieldInterceptor | [debug] Looking for aspects in: testcase.C | [debug] Looking for aspects in: testcase.Z | [debug] jboss.aop.search.classpath: 'null' true | [debug] jboss.aop.path: null | [trying to transform] testcase.Main | [debug] There are no caller pointcuts! | [debug] javassist.CtMethod@44a4fe33[public static main ([Ljava/lang/String;)V] matches no pointcuts | [debug] javassist.CtConstructor@366025e7[public Main ()V] matches no pointcuts | [debug] javassist.CtConstructor@28d08633[public C ()V] matches no pointcuts | [debug] javassist.CtConstructor@6037fb1e[public B ()V] matches no pointcuts | [debug] testcase.A.myField:Ljava/lang/String; matches pointcut: get(* *-&gt;(a)testcase.MyFieldAnnotation) | [debug] testcase.A.myField:Ljava/lang/String; matches no pointcuts | [debug] javassist.CtConstructor@6686fe26[public A ()V] matches no pointcuts | [debug] was testcase.Main converted: true | [trying to transform] testcase.C | [debug] There are no caller pointcuts! | [debug] javassist.CtMethod@69cb6c6d[public toString ()Ljava/lang/String;] matches no pointcuts | [debug] javassist.CtConstructor@41fc2fb[public C ()V] matches no pointcuts | [debug] was testcase.C converted: false | [trying to transform] testcase.B | [debug] There are no caller pointcuts! | [debug] javassist.CtConstructor@42704baa[public B ()V] matches no pointcuts | [debug] testcase.A.myField:Ljava/lang/String; matches pointcut: get(* *-&gt;(a)testcase.MyFieldAnnotation) | [debug] testcase.A.myField:Ljava/lang/String; matches no pointcuts | [debug] was testcase.B converted: true | [trying to transform] testcase.A | [debug] There are no caller pointcuts! | [debug] javassist.CtConstructor@65b4fad5[public A ()V] matches no pointcuts | [debug] testcase.A.myField:Ljava/lang/String; matches pointcut: get(* *-&gt;(a)testcase.MyFieldAnnotation) | [debug] testcase.A.myField:Ljava/lang/String; matches no pointcuts | [debug] was testcase.A converted: true | iterate binding testcase.MyFieldInterceptor | field matched binding testcase.MyFieldInterceptor | [debug] added advisor: testcase.A from binding: testcase.MyFieldInterceptor | Using context classloader sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader@64601bb1 to load aspect testcase.MyFieldInterceptor | [trying to transform] testcase.MyFieldInterceptor | [debug] There are no caller pointcuts! | [debug] javassist.CtMethod@26562bc2[public getName ()Ljava/lang/String;] matches no pointcuts | [debug] javassist.CtMethod@2ff3c113[public invoke (Lorg/jboss/aop/joinpoint/Invocation;)Ljava/lang/Object;] matches no pointcuts | [debug] javassist.CtConstructor@2c76e369[public MyFieldInterceptor ()V] matches no pointcuts | [debug] was testcase.MyFieldInterceptor converted: false | null | were you able to get the test case i sent you to run correctly (with the duplicated myField inherited variable in class B commented out)? Upon further investigation it seems that the interceptor is invoked on the inherited field as long as the field is not called from within the subclass itself...what I mean is that in subclass C I have a toString method that returns the inherited A.myField value.... | public class C extends B<ZImpl> | { | public String toString() | { | return myField; | } | } | If the inherited field is not duplicated in class B and I call C.toString the interceptor is not run on the inherited A.myField...however...if within the main class i directly call C.myField like this.. | | public class Main | { | /** | * @author gdunkle | * @param args | * TODO Implement auto-generated method stub | */ | public static void main(String[] args) | { | C cInstance=new C(); | System.out.println(cInstance.toString()); | System.out.println(cInstance.myField); | } | } | the interceptor is run. I just reran the test case with the 1.5.2 release and the second print line in Main did not invoke the interceptor so it looks like that part of the issue was indeed solved by 1.5.3. So I guess my new issue is that the interceptors are not being called on fields inherited through the superclass from inside the subclass itself. Should this be expected behavior? Could you please comment? Thanks View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4003309#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...