Question

I am trying to set up Spring AOP logging in OSGi bundle which is deployed in Apache Karaf. This is related to my post here. The answer provided there didn’t help me. If I add maven dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
    <artifactId>com.springsource.org.aspectj.weaver</artifactId>
    <version>1.6.2.RELEASE</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

I have to export a bunch of packages:

org.aspectj.lang.*,
org.aspectj.internal.lang.reflect.*,
org.aspectj.internal.lang.annotation.*,
org.aspectj.runtime.internal.*,
org.aspectj.runtime.*,
org.aspectj.weaver.reflect.*,
org.aspectj.apache.bcel.classfile.*,
org.aspectj.apache.bcel.*,
org.aspectj.bridge.*,
org.aspectj.util.*,
org.aspectj.weaver.*,
com.bea.jvm.*,

While the last one (com.bea.jvm.*) is breaking everything down. When I am trying to start my bundle it gives me the missing requirement error and says that this package is missing. (package=com.bea.jvm). But it is exported. Instead of above maven dependency I have also tried different others but the same issue.

What I am missing here? There aren’t much of information on the internet related to OSGi and AOP. Can someone help me? I’m stuck here…

Answer 1

Finally I found a solution. I needed to install these bundles:

install http://repository.springsource.com/ivy/bundles/external/org.aspectj/com.springsource.org.aspectj.runtime/1.6.2.RELEASE/com.springsource.org.aspectj.runtime-1.6.2.RELEASE.jar
install http://repository.springsource.com/ivy/bundles/external/org.aspectj/com.springsource.org.aspectj.weaver/1.6.2.RELEASE/com.springsource.org.aspectj.weaver-1.6.2.RELEASE.jar

And import org.aopalliance.aop, package into my bundle and everything worked. Also there is no need to export this bunch of (org.aspectj) packages.