[aspectj-users] Invoking ajc from code

[Marc Hull <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,
I'm writing an Eclipse plug-in that needs to compile some files using 
ajc. Currently, I do this using Runtime.exec(..) to execute the ajc 
executeable and pass it the files and other options as arguments, 
however I was wondering if there's a better way of doing this, by 
invoking the compiler directly from within my code?

I tried org.aspectj.tools.ajc.Main.main(..) and 
org.aspectj.ajdt.ajc.AjdtCommand.runCommand(..) but both generate the 
following error:

error can't find type org.aspectj.lang.JoinPoint

However, AspectJRT.jar is in my classpath - is this error appearing 
because I'm trying to invoke the compiler from within Eclipse?

Is there any way to get rid of this error, or can you think of a better 
way of achieving the same results?

Best wishes,
Marc Hull