Spring-aop and AspectJ

I have written a Spring-aop(v3.0.5) interceptor for profiling public methods, and this application is deployed in Weblogic 11g. Since spring-aop is dependent on aspectjrt.jar & aspectweaver.jar I have included these in the application classpath(to gether wiith all the spring jars). However when the spring application context is initialized an exception is thrown;

Code:

---

Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError
        at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AbstractAspectJAdvice.class$(AbstractAspectJAdvice.java:64)
        at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AbstractAspectJAdvice.<clinit>(AbstractAspectJAdvice.java:64)
        at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:169)
............
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.aspectj.lang.JoinPoint
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)

---

If the 2 jars aspectjrt.jar & aspectweaver.jar are placed in startWeblogic.cmd classpath everything works fine.

AbstractAspectJAdvice.java:64 has the code

Code:

---

protected final static String JOIN_POINT_KEY = JoinPoint.class.getName();

---

If I do the exact same line from my source code without including aspectj jars in startWeblogic.cmd classpath I get no errors, hance I am thinking the issue is with spring loading aspectj classes.
Would like to know if anyone faced/resoled similar issues and how does spring-aop loads aspectj

Hi,

I have the same problem. Did you manage to fix this? If yes, how?

regards,
Nadeem

Sorry, didn't spend enough time on this lately. Will let you know if Ifind something.

Load spring libs through filtered class loader
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E15051_01/...html#wp1073491

weblogic-application.xml

<prefer-application-packages>
<package-name>org.springframework.*</package-name>
</prefer-application-packages>