AspectJ and Ant
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2) Add the XML namespace to the project element:
<project xmlns:aspectj="antlib:org.aspectj" ...Create a new compile target in your build.xml (you can see that I use Ivy for dependency management):
<target name="compile.aspectj" depends="resolve"> <mkdir dir="${build}" /> <aspectj:iajc source="1.6" destDir="${build}"> <sourceroots> <pathelement location="${src}" /> </sourceroots> <classpath> <fileset dir="${lib}"> <include name="**/*.jar" /> </fileset> </classpath> </aspectj:iajc> </target>
Note: you may need to tell AspectJ to use target Java 6.
3) Factor out the javac element into it's own "compile.javac" task, this wil allow you to revert to javac easily:
<target name="compile.javac" depends="resolve"> <mkdir dir="${build}" /> <javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${build}" includeantruntime="false"> <classpath> <fileset dir="${lib}"> <include name="**/*.jar" /> </fileset> </classpath> </javac> </target>
4) Make the "compile" target dependent on "compile.aspectj";
<target name="compile" depends="compile.aspectj"> <copy todir="${build}"> <fileset dir="${src}" excludes="**/*.java" /> </copy> </target>
5) Build it.
You might want to also download the AspectJ runtime in your build (e.g. using Ivy).
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