6.3. Schema-based AOP support

“Warning

The style of configuration makes heavy use of Spring’s auto-proxying mechanism. This can cause issues (such as advice not being woven) if you are already using explicit auto-proxying via the use of BeanNameAutoProxyCreator or suchlike. The recommended usage pattern is to use either just the style, or just the AutoProxyCreator style.”

So if you’re already using style, you’ll have to add this advice the same way:

I found your blog and i really enjoy reading it.
I played with your aspect and it seems it can rewritten in a shorter form:

@Around(value = \@annotation(timed)\)
static Object timeMethod(final ProceedingJoinPoint pjp, final Timed timed) throws Throwable {
return time(pjp, timed);
}

@Around(\@target(timed)\)
static Object timeClass(final ProceedingJoinPoint pjp, final Timed timed) throws Throwable {
return time(pjp, timed);
}
The next thing:
testSampleServiceMethod2 method tests sampleServiceMethod1 but i suspect your intention was to test sampleServiceMethod2 instead.

I wish Spring had a way to define pointcuts that could match annotations on superclasses and interfaces, but since annotations themselves are not inheritable …