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Question

I am using Spring 4.2.4.RELEASE in my web application and I would like to remove the dependency on aspectjweaver.jar from it. I don\'t use AOP directly and I certainly don\'

Answer 1

Is there any way to completely remove the dependency on aspectjweaver.jar ?

No, you cannot. You are using Spring AOP. The Spring project spring-aop does have a hard dependency on aspectjweaver.jar. Read the Spring-aop docs that clearly identifies it as a dependency.