Re: [aspectj-users] ERROR: ... must be declared in an aop.xml file

[Barry Kaplan <groups1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah, yes, I got it. I'll check if it advises itself. It very well could.

thanks!

-barry

Adrian Colyer wrote:
> If you compile an aspect that advises itself, the resulting class file 
> on disk will be woven. If this .class file is then used as input to 
> the LTW process (loaded by the JVM when an LTW agent is defined), you 
> get the error that you are seeing unless the aspect is defined in 
> aop.xml.  Changing the aspect definition to not advise itself (&& 
> !within(MultiFactoryBeanConfigurerSupportFactoryAdder)) would be one 
> way around this. The evil -XnoWeave used to be another option, but we 
> took that away because it was, well, evil ;).