[aspectj-users] aspectjtools.jar

[Sina <my.linked.account@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there,

I have a question which may seem somehow trivial! But anyway here it is: 

I have a Maven project which consists of many sub projects and in some of them I'm using AspectJ.

I've added these dependencies in pom files:

<dependency>

<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>

<artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>

<version>${aspectj.version}</version>

<scope>compile</scope>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>

<artifactId>aspectjtools</artifactId>

<version>${aspectj.version}</version>

<scope>compile</scope>

</dependency>

Right now I'm trying to reduce the size of my ear file and I noticed that aspectjtool.jar has a good size (~9MB) but I cannot remember why do I

need that? Is there any documentation in which I can find what are the uses of this jar file (I didn't find any). 

Previously I used privileged keyword  to access some private method of a class of another module but I don't need that anymore. (I think I added that jar file because of that but right now I'm not quite sure). I also don't need any load-time weaving. 

Thanks

Sina