[aspectj-users] Intertype definitions and annotations

[Jeppe Cramon <jeppe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

I'm pretty this is not possible, but I wanted to hear it from the really 
experienced guys.
Is it possible using intertype definitions to enhance/decorate 
classes/fields/methods with annotations...?

Exmaple: I have a web application where the infrastructure uses a 
@Secure annotation to define access control to Controllers.
Since we have a lot of Controllers neatly placed in meaningfull 
packages, I wanted to define an Aspect where I could say all Controllers 
(there's an interface you can use to spot them out), that are in the 
com.mycompany.web.admin should have
@Secure(roles="ROLE_ADMIN") added to their class declaration and all in 
package com.x.y should have @Secure(roles="ROLE_USER") finally the rest 
should be left alone.

The alternative way would be to write an Aspect that worked with the 
security infrastructure and used the packages to define the required 
roles, but just out of curiosity I would like to know if the other 
solution is at all possible (for cases where you have to play by the rules
and apply the annotations as the framework expects) ?

/Jeppe