[aspectj-users] Declare annotation question

[Ashley Williams <ashley.williams@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

I've started converting our various
aspects to the annotation style of development so that we can use the ordinary
java compiler and then weave at runtime. This way our build process doesn't
need to change and since we are new to aspectj, very comforting for everyone.

However I seem to have hit on a snag
when it comes to declaring our @Tracing annotation, since the @DeclareAnnotaion
equivalent doesn't seem to work, and reading the documentation confirms
this. Is there some workaround that I can use no matter how dirty?

A little more background to what I am
trying to do: I would like to create a number of different tracing profile
aspect that declare the tracing annotations in different combinations,
so that we can choose which one gets woven by modifying a deployment aop.xml
file, here are a couple of examples:

//  I have example pojos called
Pojo1.java, Pojo2.java etc for this test case

public aspect
FullPojoTracing {
     
  declare @type : Pojo* : @Tracing(loggerName = "FullPojoTracing");
     
  
     
  declare @field : * Pojo*.* : @Tracing;
     
  
     
  declare @constructor : Pojo*.new(..) : @Tracing;
     
  
     
  declare @method : * Pojo*.*() : @Tracing;
}

public aspect
ConstructorPojoTracing {
     
  declare @type : Pojo* : @Tracing(loggerName = "ConstructorPojoTracing");
     
  
     
  declare @constructor : Pojo*.new(..) : @Tracing;
}

Thanks for any tips
- Ashley
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