AspectJ + Perf4J + Spring and #Profiled annotation? - spring

Question

I can't get AspectJ to work at all, and I have ran out of ideas after following 10 different tutorials.
Here is what I am trying to do...
I have a Spring application. It uses Spring, Perf4J, and Now Aspect(if it ever works!) and I want to use #Profiled("some tag here") at the tog of my public method. That is it, nothing too fancy.
Here is the code I am trying to run :
#Override
#Profiled(tag = "MainClass" + ".runMethod", logFailuresSeparately = true)
public Collection<Throwable> runMethod() throws Exception {
System.out.println("Running a simple method that I want timings for.");
}
Here are my POM dependencies used in maven to get everything to set up.
<dependencies>
<!-- Spring (includes spring-aop)-->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- AspectJ (required spring-aop dependency) -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectjweaver</artifactId>
<version>1.8.5</version>
</dependency>
<!-- LOG -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.perf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>perf4j</artifactId>
<version>${perf4j.version}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
Here is the aspect beans file :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.0.xsd">
<aop:aspectj-autoproxy proxy-target-class="true">
<aop:include name="timingAspect"/>
</aop:aspectj-autoproxy>
<!--<context:load-time-weaver/> -->
<!-- The perf4j aspect -->
<bean id="timingAspect" class="org.perf4j.log4j.aop.TimingAspect"/>
Here is how I bring that XML beans file in (within the spring application context file) :
<import resource="aspectBeans.xml" />
Now, the application compiles, it runs, and it prints my System.out.println line, but I am seeing absolutely nothing related to timing.