Why Spring AOP is not weaving external jars at runtime?

Question

I have a java application build upon Spring 3. This project has another jar as a dependency.

This dependency contains a @org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Aspect

Answer 1

You might try aspectJ LTW instead of Spring AOP proxy. To do this add a aop.xml to your META-INF

And this is the spring portion of the config:

See here for details : http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-reference/html/aop.html#aop-aj-ltw