A slightly different variety of the problem, which will be fixed in the 1.5.3.GA release due very soon. For your use-case you should be able to use | field(* $instanceof{A}->field) | Or are you saying that you also have | public class C extends A{} | and you would only like to apply the interceptor to B? This is currently not possible View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4001050#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...