In the past I have been using load-time byte code manipulation and tried to use AOP pre compilation with DR4. However it seems that the current AOP implementation design requires a newInstance() of advice classes during byte code enhancement (AspectDefinition#createAspect).
This behaviour is rather optimal since my advice classes initialize themself in a static{} block and fail as soon as the runtime environment is not available (such as an MBean Server).
Although switching to lazy initialization would be an option I would love to see a way to use pre compilation which doesn't need newInstance() of advice classes. Do you think this is possible?
