Spring + AspectJ weaving for java 8 using aspectj-maven-plugin

Question

I\'m migrating my project from java 7 to java 8 and the problem I have is related to aspectj weaving using aspectj-maven-plugin.

I could configure succe

Answer 1

Solution before the official release prior to Sep 2015

After many headaches and many hours struggling against this, fortunately I could solve this problem. Here is what I did:

To use aspectj-maven-plugin with Java 8 I could configure version aspectj-maven-plugin 1.7 (Note that aspectj-maven-plugin 1.6 works for Java 7).

So, the maven plugin configuration needs to be:

    org.codehaus.mojo
    aspectj-maven-plugin
    1.7-SNAPSHOT
    
        1.8
        1.8
        1.8
    
    
        
            
                compile
                test-compile
            
        
    

By the way, the aspectJ jars needed are:

    org.aspectj
    aspectjrt
    1.8.1


    org.springframework
    spring-aop
    4.0.4.RELEASE


    org.aspectj
    aspectjweaver
    1.8.1

The most important thing I've struggled was that to install the aspectj-maven-plugin 1.7 jar I had to do it manually since these jar/pom files aren't on maven repo yet.

Update: So, the jar file can be downloaded from Haus Jira link (look at the Attachment section). If Haus is not available anymore you can download it from my github:

https://github.com/fedepia/aspectj-maven-plugin-1.7

After download it and copy it to my local repo I needed to create my own aspectj-maven-plugin-1.7-SNAPSHOT.pom file within the directory:

.m2\repository\org\codehaus\mojo\aspectj-maven-plugin\1.7-SNAPSHOT\aspectj-maven-plugin-1.7-SNAPSHOT.pom

I based on a copy from version 1.6 but had to modify the following content:

1.7-SNAPSHOT


    1.8.1
    2.2.1
    2.9

That's all here you go, hope to help.

Update: (adding more details as Xtreme Biker asked in the comments)

In my context configuration I have:

For my java aspect I use:

@Aspect
public class NotificationAspect
{
   ...
   @AfterThrowing(pointcut="@annotation(com.integration.core.meta.NotifyOnFailure)", throwing="ex")
   public void executeOnException(JoinPoint joinPoint, ExternalApiExecutionException ex) throws Throwable
    {
    ...

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Finally official plugin released since Sep 2015

This is an update to the answer with the official plugin release. In order to use Java 8 with AspectJ, the official aspectj maven plugin can be found on this link:

http://www.mojohaus.org/aspectj-maven-plugin/usage.html

Here is the link to maven repository:

http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.codehaus.mojo/aspectj-maven-plugin/1.8

As the documentation stated the code to use it is:

  ...
  
    ...
    
      org.aspectj
      aspectjrt
      1.8.7
    
    ...
  
  ...
  
    
      
        org.codehaus.mojo
        aspectj-maven-plugin
        1.8
        
          
            
              compile       
              test-compile  
            
          
        
      
      ...
    
  
  ...