AspectJ: ClassLoading issue when trying to use external aop.xml file

Question

I m trying to externalize the configuration of aop.xml so I removed the aop.xml from META-INF and made it available in the server for manual config

Answer 1

What I ended up doing is changing the LOG Level for the error message from ERROR to DEBUG, as I don't see this as an ERROR ( at least in my case ). this case I can still see the error when I enable the DEBUG level. so I modified the source file below and rebuild my aspectjweaver-1.7.1.jar

try {
    registerOptions(weaver, loader, definitions);
    registerAspectExclude(weaver, loader, definitions);
    registerAspectInclude(weaver, loader, definitions);
    success = registerAspects(weaver, loader, definitions);
    registerIncludeExclude(weaver, loader, definitions);
    registerDump(weaver, loader, definitions);
} catch (Exception ex) {
    //(CHANGE 1) trace.error("register definition failed", ex);
    trace.debug( "register definition failed" + ex.getMessage());
    success = false;
    // (CHANGE 2) warn("register definition failed", (ex instanceof AbortException) ? null : ex);
    debug("register definition failed" + ((ex instanceof AbortException) ? null : ex));
}