Description Paulo Villela 2003-12-28 22:55:17 EST

The pointcut call(* Foo.*(..)) captures calls to methods defined in class Foo 
but does not capture calls to parent class methods.  

For example, given a class Account which defines methods debit and credit (and 
inherits method toString from Object), the pointcut:
    
        call(* Account.*(..)) 

captures the second and third lines of the snippet below but not the call to 
toString() in the fourth:

        Account account = new Account(12456);
        account.credit(100);
        account.debit(50);
        System.out.println( account.toString() );

This behavior is highly undesirable as the join points captured by a "call" 
pointcut would silently change as a result of refactoring methods from a class 
to a parent class.