I am pretty sure EJB has the same limitation.
On May 18, 2008, at 01:55, Dan Allen wrote:
While researching the internals of Seam, I observed that
interceptors
are not applied to methods that a component invokes on itself, even if
those are public. This would be any method that could be written
prefixed with "this." or "super.". This behavior differs from how
interceptors work on true proxies, of which session beans are an
example.