Description David Knibb 2005-08-04 08:32:47 EDT

In pure Java, classes must be declared in a package matching their place in the 
file structure, e.g. a class stored at <project root>/a/b/Foo.java must be 
declared to be in the package a.b  - if these two do not match you get a 
compiler error.


This is not the case in AspectJ - if package declarations and physical 
locations do not match there is no compiler error or warning.

This is a large problem in a loadtime weaving environment, as it prevents 
aspect from being loaded. There is no compiler error or warning though, which 
makes it hard to tell why your code is not running as expected!