Here is the AOP-Config file. I am using Spring AspectJ

<aop:config>

<aop:pointcut id="allServiceMethodsWithAnnot"

expression="@within(org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Transactional) ||

@annotation(org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Transactional)" />

<aop:pointcut id="allHPBMethods" expression="execution(* com.aon..*HPB.*(..))" />

<aop:advisor advice-ref="txAdvice" pointcut-ref="allServiceMethodsWithAnnot" />

<aop:aspect id="eventSyncAspect" ref="eventTransactionSync">

<aop:before method="eventSync" pointcut-ref="allServiceMethodsWithAnnot" />

</aop:aspect>

<aop:aspect id="exceptionHandlingAspect" ref="exceptionHandling">

<aop:after-throwing throwing="ex"

method="afterHibernateException" pointcut-ref="allServiceMethodsWithAnnot" />

</aop:aspect>

<aop:aspect id="hibernatePersistenceBrokerAspect" ref="hibernatePersistenceBrokerInterceptor">

<aop:around method="doProfilling" pointcut-ref="allHPBMethods" />

</aop:aspect>

</aop:config>

And getting the following error

exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: error Type referred to is not an annotation type: org$springframework$transaction$annotation$Transactional

at org.aspectj.weaver.tools.PointcutParser.parsePointcutExpression(PointcutParser.java:301) [aspectjweaver-1.7.0.jar:1.7.0] at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJExpressionPointcut.buildPointcutExpression(AspectJExpressionPointcut.java:207)