AOP not undeploying/redeploying

[jonnio]

All,
I use some 'simple' schema configured aop (below). The trouble is, when i undeploy and/or redeploy the application, the aspectj/weaver seems to keep the beanfactory from being garbage collected. Is there some magic to getting aop out when the app is unloaded?

<aop:config>
        <aop:aspect id="webserviceEndPointAdvice"
                    ref="webserviceEndpointAdvisor">
            <aop:pointcut id="webservicePort"
                          expression="execution(public * *SoapPort())"/>
            <aop:after-returning method="doEndpointConfig"
                                 returning="theStub"
                                 pointcut-ref="webservicePort"/>
        </aop:aspect>
        <aop:aspect id="webserviceEndPointAdvice2"
                    ref="webserviceEndpointAdvisor">
            <aop:pointcut id="webservicePort2"
                          expression="execution(public * *ServicesPort())"/>
            <aop:after-returning method="doEndpointConfig"
                                 returning="theStub"
                                 pointcut-ref="webservicePort2"/>
        </aop:aspect>
    </aop:config>

[jonnio]

A ha! I figured it out. Based on our project configuration, this is the servlet context listener that gets everything cleaned up:

        LogFactory.release( Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader() );  //commons logging
        LogManager.getLoggerRepository().shutdown();  //log4j
        PropertyUtils.clearDescriptors();  //commons beanutils
        Introspector.flushCaches();  //aop
        SecurityContextHolder.clearContext();  //spring security

[jonnio]

Ok so some more research. Aparently, AOP has a 'next load' cleanup strategy starting somewhere around 1.6.1.

Here is the link to the thread:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=210470