"ykrishnaprasad" wrote : | a) Can get the type of an invocation(whether its a METHOD)? | i guess you mean in the interceptor, so yes. just either try to cast it to a MethodInvocation or check if its an instanceof MethodInvocation. "ykrishnaprasad" wrote : | b) Can i use org.jboss.aop.joinpoint.MethodCalledByMethodInvocation to see if a method is invoked by another method? | i believe you are thinking of cflow here. with cflow you can define a stack of eg. method calls that has to occur before a pointcut matches. take a look at the cflow examples in the dist and let me know if it solves your problem. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3992980#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...