Issue migrating to running on JDK7

[oxbow_lakes]

I have some code (a large application, several years old), happily running on JDK6. I updated its runtime to JDK7 and this error now happens on startup:

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: error at ::0 can't find referenced pointcut businessServiceLayer
at org.aspectj.weaver.tools.PointcutParser.parsePoint cutExpression(PointcutParser.java:316)
at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJExpressionP ointcut.buildPointcutExpression(AspectJExpressionP ointcut.java:205)
at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJExpressionP ointcut.checkReadyToMatch(AspectJExpressionPointcu t.java:192)
at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJExpressionP ointcut.getClassFilter(AspectJExpressionPointcut.j ava:173)
at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.canApply( AopUtils.java:198)
at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.canApply( AopUtils.java:253)
at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.findAdvis orsThatCanApply(AopUtils.java:287)
at org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.Abstra ctAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.findAdvisorsThatCanApply (AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.java:113)
at org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.Abstra ctAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.findEligibleAdvisors(Abs tractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.java:85)
at org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.Abstra ctAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.getAdvicesAndAdvisorsFor Bean(AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.java:66)
at org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.Abstra ctAutoProxyCreator.wrapIfNecessary(AbstractAutoPro xyCreator.java:360)


I have done nothing else other than change the JDK runtime. Here is an example of my pointcut being used:

@Aspect
public final class AuthenticationAdvice
{

    @Before("myapp.server.advice.SystemArchitecture.businessServiceLayer() && args(user,..) && @annotation(auth)")
    public void checkSecurity(JoinPoint jp, User user, Authenticate auth) throws Throwable {

And here is the pointcut itself...

@Aspect
public class SystemArchitecture
{

    @Pointcut("execution(public * myapp.server.service.impl..*.*(..))")
    public void businessServiceLayer() {}

I am using Spring 2.5.5 which involves having these on my classpath:

/spring/spring-framework-2.5.5/lib/aspectj/aspectjweaver.jar
spring/spring-framework-2.5.5/lib/asm/asm-2.2.3.jar
spring/spring-framework-2.5.5/lib/asm/asm-commons-2.2.3.jar
spring/spring-framework-2.5.5/lib/asm/asm-util-2.2.3.jar
spring/spring-framework-2.5.5/lib/cglib/cglib-nodep-2.1_3.jar

Does anyone have a solution to this?

[Enrico Pizzi]

I'd try to upgrade to Spring 3. I don't think that Spring 2 was designed to be used with Java 7.

[varunmehta]

Did you find a solution to this problem, I don't want to jump on your thread, but i upgraded to 7 and ran into a similar issue. Was already on Spring 3.03

[oxbow_lakes]

No - I haven't spent much time on it. The "migrate to Spring 3" was not an answer I had much truck with, as obviously this is AOP-specific and, in any case, Spring 3 was out *quite a long time before* Java7