[aspectj-users] Annotation Type Pattern in aop.xml weaver includes

[william.louth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi,

It would appear that the weaver include specification behaves different for annotation type patterns than within the pointcut specification.

I cannot seem to instruct the weaver to include classes which have a @X annotation possibly derived from a parent class. The following for those classes tagged with @X.

<weaver>
   <include within="@X *.*"/>
</weaver>

but the following does not work for subclasses of annotated classes.

<weaver>
   <include within="(@X *.*)+"/>
</weaver>

I would have expected this to work very similar to the way interfaces are defined with the weaver section. The + notation does work for a point cut specification.

kind regards,

William