One more thing...

I forgot one thing about Test-NG...they switched the order of "expected value"/"actual value" in the assert statements! So after finally having learned the hard way that the "expected" value should be first (JUnit 3), I now have to revert to (the more intuitive but less standard way of) putting the "actual" value first :-)

Today I'm struggling with an issue related to this: http://forum.springframework.org/archive/index.php/t-36086.html

Basically, an @Around expression with "&& args(foo)" works fine when the Eclipse compiler is being used, but not when Maven compiles the sources with Sun Javac 1.6, no matter how much debug info I turn on :-/