[aspectj-users] Configuring AspectJ aspects using Spring IoC with JavaCo

[Eric B <ebenzacar@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is both a Spring and AspectJ question.  I'm having trouble configuring AspectJ aspects with Spring and JavaConfig.  According to Spring's Documentation (http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/3.2.x/spring-framework-reference/html/aop.html#aop-aj-configure) in order to configure an aspect for Spring IOC, the following has to be added to the xml configuration:

    <bean id="profiler" class="com.xyz.profiler.Profiler"

          factory-method="aspectOf">

      <property name="profilingStrategy" ref="jamonProfilingStrategy"/>

    </bean>

An equivalent in JavaConfig would be:

    @Bean

    public com.xyz.profiler.Profiler profiler() {

        com.xyz.profiler.Profiler profiler = com.xyz.profiler.Profiler.aspectOf();

        profiler.setProfilingStrategy(jamonProfilingStrategy()); 

        return profiler;

    }

However, this only seems to work if the `Profiler` aspect is written in native aspectj `.aj` syntax.  If it is written in Java and annotated with `@Aspect`, I get the following error message:

    The method aspectOf() is undefined for the type Profiler

Is there an equivalent way of writing this using JavaConfig for aspects written with @AspectJ syntax?

I suspect that there is some conflict between the java compiler and ajc where it is not seeing the properly compiled version of the aspect.  But I have checked the .class file for the aspect and see that the `aspectOf` method is indeed present.

Any ideas what this is happening with the @AspectJ coding style?

Thanks,

Eric