Spring AOP Advice on Annotated Controllers

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I am trying to use AOP to do some processing after an annotated controller. Everything is running with no errors, but the advice is not being executed.

Here is the controller code:

@Controller
public class HomeController {       
    @RequestMapping("/home.fo")
    public String home(ModelMap model) {
        model = new ModelMap();
        return "home";
    }   
}

and the setup in application-config

<aop:aspectj-autoproxy/>

<bean id="testAdvice" class="com.test.TestAdvice">
</bean>

<bean id="testAdvisor"
    class="org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJExpressionPointcutAdvisor">
    <property name="advice" ref="testAdvice" />
    <property name="expression" value="execution(* *.home(..))" />
</bean>

and the actual advice

public class TestAdvice implements AfterReturningAdvice {

    protected final Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(getClass());

    public void afterReturning(Object returnValue, Method method, Object[] args,
            Object target) throws Throwable {
        logger.info("Called after returning advice!");
    }
}

Is it even possible to have advice on annotated controllers? I am using Spring 2.5.

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