Using with AJDT

Using together with AJDT

To use this plugin together with AJDT (AspectJ Development Tools for Eclipse IDE), you simply specify the ajdtBuildDefFile property to point to the build.ajproperties file generated by AJDT. The use of this property overrides the configured project source folders. Any include or exclude elements in the POM are also disregarded.

<project>
  <!-- ... -->
  <dependencies>
    <!-- ... -->
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
      <artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
      <version>${aspectjVersion}</version>
    </dependency>
    <!-- ... -->
  </dependencies>
  <!-- ... -->
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
        <artifactId>aspectj-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>${project.version}</version>
        <configuration>
          <ajdtBuildDefFile>build.ajproperties</ajdtBuildDefFile>
        </configuration>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <goals>
              <goal>compile</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
      <!-- ... -->
    </plugins>
  </build>
  <!-- ... -->
</project>

Example of a valid build properties file

Note: In this file, the paths are relative to the project’s base directory.

src.includes = src/main/aspect,\
               src/main/java/com/mycompany/myaspects/**/*TransactionAspect.java
src.excludes = src/main/java/org/codehaus/mojo/aspectj/Azpect.java