Appendix C. Using Maven with AspectJ

The previous appendix examines various weaving options enabled through Ant. In this appendix, you perform the same tasks using Maven.[18] As in appendix B, you'll use the classes from listings 2.1 and 2.2 and the profiling aspect from listing 2.4 to exercise various weaving possibilities.

Weaving sources

Maven, through the open source codehaus.org project, provides a plugin to work with AspectJ (visit http://mojo.codehaus.org/aspectj-maven-plugin for details). Let's see this plugin in action through the Maven pom.xml file in listing C.1.

Example C.1. Maven pom.xml to perform source code build-time weaving

Maven pom.xml to perform source code build-time weaving

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