Answer by gabuzo for Spring AOP: Annotation on any method called x not working

Spring AOP Proxies and aspectJ had some differences mainly:

• Spring AOP only works on public methods.
• Spring AOP does not work for self invocations.

You can have a look to sections 8.4 & 8.5 of Spring's Documentation for more information.

Currently you have two solutions:

1. refactor your code to remove the need for self invocation
2. use AspectJ rather than Spring AOP proxies either at compile time or load time.