Replacing AnnotationTransactionAspect using <tx:annotation-driven mode="aspectj" ../>

[aanno]

Hello,

I would like to use my own Aspect (derived from AbstractTransactionAspect) with <tx:annotation-driven mode="aspectj" .../>. For this, I tried having the following Class as spring bean (yes, I'm using <context:component-scan ../> as well):

package org.nuclos.server.spring.tx;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanDefinition;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Role;
import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.AbstractTransactionManagementConfiguration;
import org.springframework.transaction.config.TransactionManagementConfigUtils;

@Configuration
public class NuclosAspectJTransactionManagementConfiguration extends AbstractTransactionManagementConfiguration {
    
    NuclosAspectJTransactionManagementConfiguration() {
    }

    @Bean(name=TransactionManagementConfigUtils.TRANSACTION_ASPECT_BEAN_NAME)
    @Role(BeanDefinition.ROLE_INFRASTRUCTURE)
    public NuclosAnnotationTransactionAspect transactionAspect() {
        NuclosAnnotationTransactionAspect txAspect = NuclosAnnotationTransactionAspect.aspectOf();
        if (this.txManager != null) {
            txAspect.setTransactionManager(this.txManager);
        }
        return txAspect;
    }
}

However, this does not work. Spring still uses its own AnnotationTransactionAspect.

Any suggestions, anyone?

Cheers,

aanno

[aanno]

Well,

I just have analyzed the problem a little further. For me, it looks like the problem is to get my TransactionAspect woven into the annotated classes. As I'm using compile-time aspectj weaving, this is to say that the problem boils down to the build process. I'm using maven (and the aspectj-maven-plugin) for this.

It turns out to be delicate to replace the AnnotationTransactionAspect with something other but, the following options come to my mind:

• Patch and recompile spring-aspects.jar
• Using a annotation of my own instead of the standard @Transactional

For me it looks like that AspectJTransactionManagementConfiguration is only used when class-loading-time aspectj weaving (aka agent-based) is used...