diff --git a/src/main/java/org/springframework/retry/interceptor/RetryOperationsInterceptor.java b/src/main/java/org/springframework/retry/interceptor/RetryOperationsInterceptor.java
index 97ac085..fcda5cb 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/springframework/retry/interceptor/RetryOperationsInterceptor.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/springframework/retry/interceptor/RetryOperationsInterceptor.java
@@ -1,24 +1,25 @@
 /*
  * Copyright 2006-2007 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.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
+ * 
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on
+ * an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
  */
 
 package org.springframework.retry.interceptor;
 
+import java.util.Arrays;
+
 import org.aopalliance.intercept.MethodInterceptor;
 import org.aopalliance.intercept.MethodInvocation;
 import org.springframework.aop.ProxyMethodInvocation;
+import org.springframework.retry.ExhaustedRetryException;
+import org.springframework.retry.RecoveryCallback;
 import org.springframework.retry.RetryCallback;
 import org.springframework.retry.RetryContext;
 import org.springframework.retry.RetryOperations;
@@ -26,17 +27,14 @@ import org.springframework.retry.support.RetryTemplate;
 import org.springframework.util.Assert;
 
 /**
- * A {@link MethodInterceptor} that can be used to automatically retry calls to
- * a method on a service if it fails. The injected {@link RetryOperations} is
- * used to control the number of retries. By default it will retry a fixed
- * number of times, according to the defaults in {@link RetryTemplate}.<br/>
+ * A {@link MethodInterceptor} that can be used to automatically retry calls to a method on a service if it fails. The
+ * injected {@link RetryOperations} is used to control the number of retries. By default it will retry a fixed number of
+ * times, according to the defaults in {@link RetryTemplate}.<br/>
  * 
- * Hint about transaction boundaries. If you want to retry a failed transaction
- * you need to make sure that the transaction boundary is inside the retry,
- * otherwise the successful attempt will roll back with the whole transaction.
- * If the method being intercepted is also transactional, then use the ordering
- * hints in the advice declarations to ensure that this one is before the
- * transaction interceptor in the advice chain.
+ * Hint about transaction boundaries. If you want to retry a failed transaction you need to make sure that the
+ * transaction boundary is inside the retry, otherwise the successful attempt will roll back with the whole transaction.
+ * If the method being intercepted is also transactional, then use the ordering hints in the advice declarations to
+ * ensure that this one is before the transaction interceptor in the advice chain.
  * 
  * @author Rob Harrop
  * @author Dave Syer
@@ -44,31 +42,32 @@ import org.springframework.util.Assert;
 public class RetryOperationsInterceptor implements MethodInterceptor {
 
 	private RetryOperations retryOperations = new RetryTemplate();
+	private MethodInvocationRecoverer<?> recoverer;
 
 	public void setRetryOperations(RetryOperations retryTemplate) {
 		Assert.notNull(retryTemplate, "'retryOperations' cannot be null.");
 		this.retryOperations = retryTemplate;
 	}
 
+	public void setRecoverer(MethodInvocationRecoverer<?> recoverer) {
+		this.recoverer = recoverer;
+	}
+
 	public Object invoke(final MethodInvocation invocation) throws Throwable {
 
-		return this.retryOperations.execute(new RetryCallback<Object>() {
+		RetryCallback<Object> retryCallback = new RetryCallback<Object>() {
 
 			public Object doWithRetry(RetryContext context) throws Exception {
 
 				/*
-				 * If we don't copy the invocation carefully it won't keep a
-				 * reference to the other interceptors in the chain. We don't
-				 * have a choice here but to specialise to
-				 * ReflectiveMethodInvocation (but how often would another
-				 * implementation come along?).
+				 * If we don't copy the invocation carefully it won't keep a reference to the other interceptors in the
+				 * chain. We don't have a choice here but to specialise to ReflectiveMethodInvocation (but how often
+				 * would another implementation come along?).
 				 */
 				if (invocation instanceof ProxyMethodInvocation) {
 					try {
-						return ((ProxyMethodInvocation) invocation)
-								.invocableClone().proceed();
-					}
-					catch (Exception e) {
+						return ((ProxyMethodInvocation) invocation).invocableClone().proceed();
+					} catch (Exception e) {
 						throw e;
 					} catch (Error e) {
 						throw e;
@@ -81,6 +80,42 @@ public class RetryOperationsInterceptor implements MethodInterceptor {
 				}
 			}
 
-		});
+		};
+
+		if (recoverer != null) {
+			ItemRecovererCallback recoveryCallback = new ItemRecovererCallback(invocation.getArguments(), recoverer);
+			return this.retryOperations.execute(retryCallback, recoveryCallback);
+		}
+
+		return this.retryOperations.execute(retryCallback);
+
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * @author Dave Syer
+	 * 
+	 */
+	private static final class ItemRecovererCallback implements RecoveryCallback<Object> {
+
+		private final Object[] args;
+
+		private final MethodInvocationRecoverer<? extends Object> recoverer;
+
+		/**
+		 * @param args the item that failed.
+		 */
+		private ItemRecovererCallback(Object[] args, MethodInvocationRecoverer<? extends Object> recoverer) {
+			this.args = Arrays.asList(args).toArray();
+			this.recoverer = recoverer;
+		}
+
+		public Object recover(RetryContext context) {
+			if (recoverer != null) {
+				return recoverer.recover(args, context.getLastThrowable());
+			}
+			throw new ExhaustedRetryException("Retry was exhausted but there was no recovery path.");
+		}
+
+	}
+
 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/springframework/retry/interceptor/RetryOperationsInterceptorTests.java b/src/test/java/org/springframework/retry/interceptor/RetryOperationsInterceptorTests.java
index d629e0a..1504108 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/springframework/retry/interceptor/RetryOperationsInterceptorTests.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/springframework/retry/interceptor/RetryOperationsInterceptorTests.java
@@ -16,16 +16,21 @@
 
 package org.springframework.retry.interceptor;
 
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
+
 import java.lang.reflect.AccessibleObject;
 import java.lang.reflect.Method;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.List;
 
-import junit.framework.TestCase;
-
 import org.aopalliance.intercept.MethodInterceptor;
 import org.aopalliance.intercept.MethodInvocation;
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
 import org.springframework.aop.framework.Advised;
 import org.springframework.aop.framework.ProxyFactory;
 import org.springframework.aop.target.SingletonTargetSource;
@@ -37,7 +42,7 @@ import org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionSynchronizationAdapter
 import org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionSynchronizationManager;
 import org.springframework.util.ClassUtils;
 
-public class RetryOperationsInterceptorTests extends TestCase {
+public class RetryOperationsInterceptorTests {
 
 	private RetryOperationsInterceptor interceptor;
 
@@ -49,8 +54,8 @@ public class RetryOperationsInterceptorTests extends TestCase {
 
 	private static int transactionCount;
 
-	protected void setUp() throws Exception {
-		super.setUp();
+	@Before
+	public void setUp() throws Exception {
 		interceptor = new RetryOperationsInterceptor();
 		target = new ServiceImpl();
 		service = (Service) ProxyFactory.getProxy(Service.class, new SingletonTargetSource(target));
@@ -58,12 +63,30 @@ public class RetryOperationsInterceptorTests extends TestCase {
 		transactionCount = 0;
 	}
 
+	@Test
 	public void testDefaultInterceptorSunnyDay() throws Exception {
 		((Advised) service).addAdvice(interceptor);
 		service.service();
 		assertEquals(2, count);
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	public void testDefaultInterceptorWithRecovery() throws Exception {
+		RetryTemplate template = new RetryTemplate();
+		template.setRetryPolicy(new SimpleRetryPolicy(1, Collections
+				.<Class<? extends Throwable>, Boolean> singletonMap(Exception.class, true)));
+		interceptor.setRetryOperations(template);
+		interceptor.setRecoverer(new MethodInvocationRecoverer<Void>() {
+			public Void recover(Object[] args, Throwable cause) {
+				return null;
+			}
+		});
+		((Advised) service).addAdvice(interceptor);
+		service.service();
+		assertEquals(1, count);
+	}
+
+	@Test
 	public void testInterceptorChainWithRetry() throws Exception {
 		((Advised) service).addAdvice(interceptor);
 		final List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
@@ -82,6 +105,7 @@ public class RetryOperationsInterceptorTests extends TestCase {
 		assertEquals(2, list.size());
 	}
 
+	@Test
 	public void testRetryExceptionAfterTooManyAttempts() throws Exception {
 		((Advised) service).addAdvice(interceptor);
 		RetryTemplate template = new RetryTemplate();
@@ -97,6 +121,7 @@ public class RetryOperationsInterceptorTests extends TestCase {
 		assertEquals(1, count);
 	}
 
+	@Test
 	public void testOutsideTransaction() throws Exception {
 		ClassPathXmlApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(ClassUtils
 				.addResourcePathToPackagePath(getClass(), "retry-transaction-test.xml"));
@@ -110,6 +135,7 @@ public class RetryOperationsInterceptorTests extends TestCase {
 		assertEquals(2, transactionCount);
 	}
 
+	@Test
 	public void testIllegalMethodInvocationType() throws Throwable {
 		try {
 			interceptor.invoke(new MethodInvocation() {