applicationContext.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
       xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">

    <!-- Enable component scanning i.e. load anything with Spring annotations such as @Component -->
    <context:component-scan base-package="org.automon.spring_aop"/>

    <!-- Enable AspectJ auto-proxying - Looks for any aspect annotated with @Aspect and loads it -->
    <aop:aspectj-autoproxy/>
<!--    To use native AspectJ weaver with spring (would allow a wider range of pointcuts such as privates and other -->
<!--    than 'execution' the following can be used (you need to use a java agent for this approach to work. -->
<!--    <context:load-time-weaver aspectj-weaving="on"/>-->


</beans>