Exception with maven-jbossaop-plugin

[hutchinsons]

Hi,

I have successfully used the plugin to build a simlple test project however I am trying to use the plugin within the life cycle of a more complex project and I am getting an Error.

Here is my plugin definition

<plugin>
 <groupId>org.jboss.maven.plugins</groupId>
 <artifactId>maven-jbossaop-plugin</artifactId>
 <version>1.0.0.GA</version>
 <executions>
 <execution>
 <id>compile</id>
 <configuration>
 <aoppaths>
 <aoppath>src/main/resources/jboss-aop.xml</aoppath>
 </aoppaths>
 </configuration>
 <goals>
 <goal>compile</goal>
 </goals>
 </execution>
 </executions>
</plugin>

However when the goal is executed I keep getting the following error message

[INFO] [jbossaop:compile {execution: compile}]
[ERROR] Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: javassist.NotFoundException: org.springframework.validation.Validator
[ERROR] at org.jboss.aop.AspectManager.translate(AspectManager.java:1062)
[ERROR] at org.jboss.aop.AspectManager.transform(AspectManager.java:993)
[ERROR] at org.jboss.aop.standalone.Compiler.compileFile(Compiler.java:391)
[ERROR] at org.jboss.aop.standalone.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:243)
[ERROR] at org.jboss.aop.standalone.Compiler.main(Compiler.java:88)
[ERROR] Caused by: javassist.NotFoundException: org.springframework.validation.Validator
[ERROR] at javassist.ClassPool.get(ClassPool.java:436)
[ERROR] at javassist.CtClassType.getInterfaces(CtClassType.java:634)
[ERROR] at org.jboss.aop.instrument.Instrumentor.isTransformable(Instrumentor.java:211)
[ERROR] at org.jboss.aop.ClassicWeavingStrategy.translate(ClassicWeavingStrategy.java:101)
[ERROR] at org.jboss.aop.AspectManager.translate(AspectManager.java:1051)
[ERROR] ... 4 more


Could someone pease give me an idea as to what might be causing this error and how I might work around it.

Kind regards

Si

[stalep]

javassist is a library jboss aop uses to transform the classes to be "aopable". it seems like that org.springframework.validation.Validator isnt in the classpath provided to the aop plugin.
try to add

<includeProjectDependency>true</includeProjectDependency>

and see if that helps.
look at http://www.jboss.org/jbossaop/docs/2.0.0.GA/docs/aspect-framework/reference/en/html/maven.html for more info on the maven plugin.

[hutchinsons]

Thanks for the reply Stale,

I had read the Maven 2 chapter already and have tried the

<includeProjectDependency>true</includeProjectDependency>

configuration option without success.

I equally tried to just aopc a specific class using

<includes>
 <include>POJO.class</include>
</includes>

But it always results in the same error.

[stalep]

hi, if you could make a reproduceable case i could try to solve your problem, but from the info you've given me i cant see what the problem can be. - it should work :)