Enabling AOP breaks my dependency injection for a factory bean that takes a string?

It seems, that it has to do with the target designator in the pointcut expression. I can reproduce the behaviour with a simple setup similar to yours (with only a custom annotation in the pointcut). It works fine with a simple execution() designator though.

Doesn't perform proxying without a reason. Perhaps you declared some aspect whose pointcut includes Strings, therefore it have been proxied.

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