Question

I have a Spring Roo multi module project. I noticed that after including the jar/module containing my domain model in another project, the aspects had not been woven leaving me with domain classes without any usable getters/setters.

How can I make sure that aspects generated by Spring roo are woven by the dependent project?

EDIT: In order to be able to use Roo’s aspects from another project, one needs to include the aspectJ plugin in the dependent project. Note that compile time loading is not needed that way.

Answer 1

You need to include the aspectj maven plugin in the pom:

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
            <artifactId>aspectj-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.4</version>
            <!-- NB: do not use 1.3 or 1.3.x due to MASPECTJ-90 and do not use 1.4
                due to declare parents issue -->
            <dependencies>
                <!-- NB: You must use Maven 2.0.9 or above or these are ignored (see
                    MNG-2972) -->
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
                    <artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
                    <version>${aspectj.version}</version>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
                    <artifactId>aspectjtools</artifactId>
                    <version>${aspectj.version}</version>
                </dependency>
            </dependencies>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>compile</goal>
                        <goal>test-compile</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <!-- NB: force aspect compile before normal compile, required for 1.3+
                        see: MASPECTJ-13, MASPECTJ-92 -->
                    <phase>process-sources</phase>
                </execution>
            </executions>
            <configuration>
                <outxml>true</outxml>
                <aspectLibraries>
                    <aspectLibrary>
                        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
                        <artifactId>spring-aspects</artifactId>
                    </aspectLibrary>
                </aspectLibraries>
                <source>${java.version}</source>
                <target>${java.version}</target>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>