title: Pointcut is not well-formed
body: <p>I am learning spring AOP. While trying an example I am getting the "Pointcut is not well-formed" exception. Below is the exception in detail:</p>
  
  <p>Code:
      package org.aspectDemo.aspect.com;</p>
  
  <pre><code>import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Aspect;
  import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Before;
  import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Pointcut;
  
  @Aspect
  public class LogginAspect {
      @Before("allGetters()")
      public void LoggingAdvice(){
          System.out.println("Advice run. Get method called");
      }
      @Pointcut("execution(* * org.aspectDemo.model.com.Circle.*())")
      public void allGetters(){}
  
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Exception:</p>
  
  <pre><code>java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Pointcut is not well-formed: expecting '(' at character position 14
  execution(* * org.aspectDemo.model.com.Circle.*())
              ^^^
  
      at org.aspectj.weaver.tools.PointcutParser.resolvePointcutExpression(PointcutParser.java:316)
      at org.aspectj.weaver.reflect.InternalUseOnlyPointcutParser.resolvePointcutExpression(InternalUseOnlyPointcutParser.java:36)
      at org.aspectj.weaver.reflect.Java15ReflectionBasedReferenceTypeDelegate.getDeclaredPointcuts(Java15ReflectionBasedReferenceTypeDelegate.java:309)
      at org.aspectj.weaver.ReferenceType.getDeclaredPointcuts(ReferenceType.java:884)
      at org.aspectj.weaver.ResolvedType$PointcutGetter.get(ResolvedType.java:243)
      at org.aspectj.weaver.ResolvedType$PointcutGetter.get(ResolvedType.java:241)
      at org.aspectj.weaver.Iterators$4$1.hasNext(Iterators.java:213)
      at org.aspectj.weaver.Iterators$4.hasNext(Iterators.java:230)
      at org.aspectj.weaver.ResolvedType.findPointcut(ResolvedType.java:743)
      at org.aspectj.weaver.patterns.ReferencePointcut.resolveBindings(ReferencePointcut.java:148)
      at org.aspectj.weaver.patterns.Pointcut.resolve(Pointcut.java:189)
      at org.aspectj.weaver.tools.PointcutParser.resolvePointcutExpression(PointcutParser.java:313)
      at org.aspectj.weaver.tools.PointcutParser.parsePointcutExpression(PointcutParser.java:294)
      at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJExpressionPointcut.buildPointcutExpression(AspectJExpressionPointcut.java:212)
      at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJExpressionPointcut.buildPointcutExpression(AspectJExpressionPointcut.java:199)
      at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJExpressionPointcut.checkReadyToMatch(AspectJExpressionPointcut.java:188)
      at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJExpressionPointcut.getClassFilter(AspectJExpressionPointcut.java:168)
      at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.canApply(AopUtils.java:208)
      at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.canApply(AopUtils.java:262)
      at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.findAdvisorsThatCanApply(AopUtils.java:294)
      at org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.findAdvisorsThatCanApply(AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.java:118)
      at org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.findEligibleAdvisors(AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.java:88)
      at org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.getAdvicesAndAdvisorsForBean(AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.java:69)
      at org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAutoProxyCreator.wrapIfNecessary(AbstractAutoProxyCreator.java:372)
      at org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAutoProxyCreator.postProcessAfterInitialization(AbstractAutoProxyCreator.java:335)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyBeanPostProcessorsAfterInitialization(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:421)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1558)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:539)
      ... 11 more
  </code></pre>