AspectJ weaving maven modules

Question

I have a project that has multiple maven modules, one of which, contains my aspects. How can I take the aspects and weave multiple maven modules? The documentation for the Aspec

Answer 1

I think the mechanism is explained pretty well on this page:

Using Aspect Libraries

Basically:

You put all your aspects in one project, compile it using the aspectj-maven-plugin, add a dependency to this project to all projects you want to weave and also add this config to the woven projects:

    org.codehaus.mojo
    aspectj-maven-plugin
    1.3
    
        
            
                your.aspects.groupId
                your.aspects.artifactId
            
        
    
    
        
            
                compile
            
        
    

The ugly part is: you need to add this configuration to every project, so one possibility would be to use a parent pom. Unfortunately, it would have to be at the same level as the aspects project (because a pom can't define a dependency to a project below it), so you'd have something like this

    ------- root --------
   /                     \
aspects   -------- java-parent ----
         /     /     |      |      \
      java1  java2  java3  java4  java5

or even like this

       ------- root ---------
      /                       \
aspect-parent            --- java-parent ---
  /        \            /     |      |      \
aspects1 aspects2     java1  java2  java3  java4 

You'd add both the and the aspectj plugin configuration to the pom of the java-parent project