load-time-weaving

I am using Spring 3.2.9, Tomcat 6.0.44 I am trying to configure my application's Spring instrumentation provider (e.g. spring-instrumentation.jar) for load-time weaving, when it is deployed on Tomcat. I have a requirement to NOT use: "-javaagent:/path/path/spring-instrument.jar" on the command line to do the configuration. I've read that I can configure the Spring instrumentation by modifying the <Context> element of my application's Tomcat configuration (in either Tomcat's server.xml or my web app's context.xml). Adding the appropriate <Context> element to the server.xml results in my

Here is my sample non-working project . It contains 2 modules: aop-lib - Aspects used as lib. It contains the following classes Wrap.java - It's the annotation used to attach advice WrapDef.java - It is the definition of the above mentioned Wrap annotation. aop-app - Uses the above aspect lib DynamicLoad.java - class to load javaagent dynamically Main.java - Main class which uses Wrap annotation. Dir structure is as follows: . ├── README.md ├── aop-app │ ├── pom.xml │ └── src │ └── main │ └── java │ └── com │ └── aop │ └── app │ ├── DynamicLoad.java │ └── Main.java └── aop-lib ├── pom.xml └──

I'm using Hibernate as a JPA provider (I'm using its EntityManagerFactory instead of its SessionFactory ) in a Spring Framework application. I managed to get Spring Framework's load time weaving support working, so I'm past that hurdle. I need to enable lazy loading of byte[] and @ManyToOne properties on an entity. I understand how to instrument (weave) my entities at build time using Hibernate's ant task, but I'd like to instrument my entities at runtime instead (load time weaving). I've seen references to in on several Google search results, but no actual instructions for enabling it. What