Spring autowired bean for @Aspect aspect is null

Question

I have the following spring configuration:

Answer 1

Use compile time weaving, see for plugin example at: https://github.com/avner-levy/minimal_spring_hibernate_maven_setup/blob/master/pom.xml

The following combination of annotation and Spring config works for me thanks to notes above by Tobias/Willie/Eric:

Class:

package com.abc
@Configurable
@Aspect
public class MyAspect {
   @Autowired
   protected SomeType someAutoWiredField;
}

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