I have a problem with applying aspects to my maven project. Probably I am missing something, so I've made a list of steps. Could you please check if it is correct?
Let say in projectA
is an aspect class and in projectB
classes, which should be changed by aspects.
- Create maven project
ProjectA
with AspectJ
class
- add
Aspectj
plugin and dependency
- Add
ProjectA
as a dependency to projectB
pom.xml
- Add to
projectB
pom.xml
plugin
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectj-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>compile</goal>
<goal>test-compile</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<source>${maven.compiler.source}</source>
<target>${maven.compiler.target}</target>
<aspectLibraries>
<aspectLibrary>
<groupId>ProjectA</groupId>
<artifactId>ProjectA</artifactId>
</aspectLibrary>
</aspectLibraries>
</configuration>
</plugin>
After all these steps my problem is, that during compilation I get:
[WARNING] advice defined in AspectE has not been applied [Xlint:adviceDidNotMatch]
And then when I run my program:
Exception in thread "FeatureExcutionThread" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: AspectE
I traced some of your older questions to try to find out what you actually are trying to do. I have come up with the following structure and code and for me it works well.
$ tree .
.
├── pom.xml
├── ProjectA
| ├── pom.xml
| └── src
| └── main
| └── aspect
| └── com
| └── stackoverflow
| └── aspects
| ├── AspectL.java
| └── Trace.aj
└── ProjectB
├── pom.xml
└── src
└── main
└── java
└── com
└── stackoverflow
└── App.java
pom.xml
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>org.stackoverflow</groupId>
<artifactId>Q12423965</artifactId>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>${project.artifactId}-${project.version}</name>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<maven.compiler.source>1.6</maven.compiler.source>
<maven.compiler.target>1.6</maven.compiler.target>
</properties>
<modules>
<module>ProjectA</module>
<module>ProjectB</module>
</modules>
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.stackoverflow</groupId>
<artifactId>Q12423965-ProjectA</artifactId>
<version>${project.version}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
<build>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectj-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>compile</goal>
<goal>test-compile</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<source>${maven.compiler.source}</source>
<target>${maven.compiler.target}</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>${maven.compiler.source}</source>
<target>${maven.compiler.target}</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>
</project>
ProjectA/pom.xml
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>org.stackoverflow</groupId>
<artifactId>Q12423965</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<artifactId>Q12423965-ProjectA</artifactId>
<name>${project.artifactId}-${project.version}</name>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
<version>1.6.11</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectj-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
I have created two differenct aspects. One that uses @AspectJ annotations and another one that is defined as a classic AspectJ aspect.
AspectL.java
package com.stackoverflow.aspects;
import org.aspectj.lang.JoinPoint;
import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.After;
import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Aspect;
import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Before;
import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Pointcut;
/**
* @author maba, 2012-09-18
*/
@Aspect
public class AspectL {
@Pointcut("execution(* main(..))")
public void defineEntryPoint() {
}
@Before("defineEntryPoint()")
public void aaa(JoinPoint joinPoint) {
System.out.println("aspect before");
}
@After("defineEntryPoint()")
public void bbb(JoinPoint joinPoint) {
System.out.println("aspect after");
}
}
Trace.aj
package com.stackoverflow.aspects;
public aspect Trace {
pointcut publicMethodExecuted(): execution(public !static * *(..));
after(): publicMethodExecuted() {
System.out.printf("Enters on method: %s. \n", thisJoinPoint.getSignature());
Object[] arguments = thisJoinPoint.getArgs();
for (int i =0; i < arguments.length; i++){
Object argument = arguments[i];
if (argument != null){
System.out.printf("With argument of type %s and value %s. \n", argument.getClass().toString(), argument);
}
}
System.out.printf("Exits method: %s. \n", thisJoinPoint.getSignature());
}
}
Those two files are part of the ProjectA module and are part of a jar.
Now we want to use these aspects and weave them into the code of ProjectB.
ProjectB/pom.xml
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>org.stackoverflow</groupId>
<artifactId>Q12423965</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<artifactId>Q12423965-ProjectB</artifactId>
<name>${project.artifactId}-${project.version}</name>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
<version>1.6.11</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.stackoverflow</groupId>
<artifactId>Q12423965-ProjectA</artifactId>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectj-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<aspectLibraries>
<aspectLibrary>
<groupId>org.stackoverflow</groupId>
<artifactId>Q12423965-ProjectA</artifactId>
</aspectLibrary>
</aspectLibraries>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.2.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>java</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<mainClass>com.stackoverflow.App</mainClass>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
App.java
package com.stackoverflow;
/**
* @author maba, 2012-09-17
*/
public class App {
public void hello(String name) {
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
App app = new App();
app.hello("world");
}
}
I build everything from top pom:
mvn clean install
And then go into the ProjectB directory and run the app:
mvn exec:java
The result is:
aspect before
Enters on method: void com.stackoverflow.App.hello(String).
With argument of type class java.lang.String and value world.
Exits method: void com.stackoverflow.App.hello(String).
aspect after
So to conclude both aspects are working and the maven setup also works.
This worked for me, a had to add the lookup for external dependencies (see weaveDependencies) in order to perform weaving to them, you should include this in ProjectA pom file:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.ProjectB</groupId>
<artifactId>ProjectB</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
<version>1.6.5</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectj-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>compile</goal><!-- to weave all your main classes -->
<goal>test-compile</goal><!-- to weave all your test classes -->
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<weaveDependencies>
<weaveDependency>
<groupId>com.ProjectB</groupId>
<artifactId>ProjectB</artifactId>
</weaveDependency>
</weaveDependencies>
<showWeaveInfo>true</showWeaveInfo>
<source>${maven.compiler.source}</source>
<target>${maven.compiler.target}</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
Hope it helps...
I had had the same problem as you. The only solution i found was to create a wrapper for each aspect class inside the aspectJ project to let external projects get access to it
I remember having this problem too, but solved it by switching to Java annotation-based aspects. You could give that a try.
Take a look at a real-life example:
- This is a module where we define aspects and compile them: pom.xml.
- This is how we use them, in another project: pom.xml (pay attention to highlighted lines).
The problem in your case is that you don't include ProjectA
as a runtime dependency of ProjectB
.