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Re: [aspectj-users] aspectjtools.jar

In general, aspectjtools is only needed if you are doing load time
weaving.  The aspectjtools artifact contains the weaver, which is one
of the reasons why the artifact is so large.  If you are not doing
LTW, then you probably don't need it.

On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Sina <my.linked.account@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
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