[aspectj-users] Introduction advice & annotations

[Brian Ericson <bme@xxxxxxxx>]

I'm using introductions to provide default implementations of interface methods.  I'd like those methods to be annotated, but AspectJ is dropping the annotations (in both the 1.5 release and in the latest development release) as demonstrated below.  Is it possible to retain the annotation?

TestAnnotation.java:
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import java.lang.annotation.*;

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
public @interface TestAnnotation {}

TestInterface.java:
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public interface TestInterface {
   void x();
   public static aspect IMPL {
      @TestAnnotation
      public void TestInterface.x() { }

      @TestAnnotation
      Object TestInterface.field;
   }
}

TestClass.java:
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import java.lang.annotation.*;
import java.lang.reflect.*;

public class TestClass implements TestInterface {
   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
      Annotation[] annotations = TestClass.class.getMethod("x", null).getAnnotations();
      System.out.println("Found "+annotations.length+" annotations on method x():");
      for (int i = 0; i < annotations.length; i++)
         System.out.println("   "+annotations[i]);

      Field field = TestClass.class.getDeclaredFields()[1];
      annotations = field.getAnnotations();
      System.out.println("Found "+annotations.length+" annotations on field "+field+":");
      for (int i = 0; i < annotations.length; i++)
         System.out.println("   "+annotations[i]);
   }
}

I've also removed the annotation (necessary to avoid a compilation error) and instead tried replacing it with the following, to no avail:
    declare @method : void TestInterface+.x() : @TestAnnotation;