Polishing

spring-aop/src/main/java/org/springframework/aop/scope/ScopedProxyUtils.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2013 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2014 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -100,9 +100,10 @@ public abstract class ScopedProxyUtils {
 	/**
 	 * Specify if the {@code beanName} is the name of a bean that references the target
 	 * bean within a scoped proxy.
+	 * @since 4.1.4
 	 */
 	public static boolean isScopedTarget(String beanName) {
-		return beanName.startsWith(TARGET_NAME_PREFIX);
+		return (beanName != null && beanName.startsWith(TARGET_NAME_PREFIX));
 	}
 
 }