Hello Eric, The answers to your questions are as follows: (1) Are you trying to get access to a Java bean from within your Aspect? It's more a service than a java bean. We are having trouble debugging our aspects in eclipse, and decided to delegate the real advise implementation to a helper component (which is easy to debug) as soon as we can. In my example i'm trying to 'inject' the helper component in one of our aspects. It's easy to configure with spring, but not without it. (2) Can you not use a factory-style approach to access it? I suppose we can do that, but assumed we followed a 'best practice' (?) in spring with the <bean id="businessRuleAspect" class="com.fugro.gwf.domain.rules.aspects.BusinessRuleAspect" factory-method="aspectOf"> <property name="businessRuleManager" ref="businessRuleManager" /> </bean> If we introduce some extra code in the aspect for the factory-style-approach, spring won't be used on either side. I'm not against that, just looking for opinions ... A question that still remains for me, even with the factory-style approach is: how is the aspect itself instantiated when I'm not using the spring configuration mentioned above? (3) Is the bean a singleton? Yes it is. Because that happened to be the standard for a spring managed bean ...
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