Running JDK8 for aspectj

Question

I am trying to run aspectj-maven plugin with JDK8. But it is giving errors like \"The type java.lang.CharSequence cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced from requir

Answer 1

I had to achieve the same and I drove crazy trying to figure out this, fortunately I could solve it and here I give you what I did:

To use aspectj-maven-plugin with Java 8 you need 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
        1.8.1
    
    
        org.aspectj
        aspectjweaver
        1.8.1
    

And the most important thing I've struggled was that you need to install the aspectj-maven-plugin 1.7 jar manually into your pom.xml since this jar aren't on maven repo yet.

You can get it from Haus Jira (look at the Attachment section):

https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASPECTJ-131

Btw, once you download it an copy it to your repo you need to create your own aspectj-maven-plugin-1.7-SNAPSHOT.pom file within the corresponding directory. You can copy it from version 1.6 BUT ensure you modify the following content:

 1.7-SNAPSHOT

 
    1.8.1
    2.2.1
    2.9
 

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