[aspectj-users] protected inter-type methods

[Reid Hartenbower <reidh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pardon if this has already been discussed, but according to the 
documentation (and the compiler), "AspectJ does not provide protected 
inter-type members."
Why?  This works against modularity, in my case.
I'd like to advise certain protected methods implemented in third-party 
classes which I have subclassed, but I only want to weave my classes, 
not the third-party jars.   Because I can't introduce protected methods 
to these subclasses, I believe I am forced to put stub methods in their 
source that invoke the super methods, and advise these stub methods instead.
This is not a grotesque workaround, but inserting code in the subclasses 
that has meaning only to the aspect breaks the encapsulation of the 
aspect.   Or am I missing something?