Can AnnotationConfigApplicationContext and LTW work together?

[zollen]

I have the following app.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
	http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">

	<bean id="accountService" class="com.fundserv.simple.service.AccountService" scope="prototype">
		<aop:scoped-proxy />
	</bean>

	<bean class="com.fundserv.simple.busobj.Teller">
		<property name="accountService" ref="accountService"/>
	</bean>

	<context:load-time-weaver />
</beans>

1. Is it possible to load the above app.xml with AnnotationConfigApplicationContext, I also want to take advantage of the annotations detection.
2. What is the annotation equivalent of <context:load-time-weaver/>?
3. What is the corresponding java class of <context:load-time-weaver/>? Can I simply declare a bean object of this class in my Java Config class?

[Chris Beams]

There is no direct equivalent of <context:load-time-weaver/> in @Configuration classes. Generally, where namespaces (like <context:*/>) are needed, it's recommended that you use the @ImportResource annotation to import just the snippet of XML that you need. e.g.:

@Configuration
@ImportResource("classpath:load-time-weaving.xml")
public class AppConfig {
    @Bean
    public AccountService accountService() {
        return new DefaultAccountService(...);
    }
}

load-time-weaving.xml:

<beans ...>
    <context:load-time-weaver/>
</beans>

Feel free to raise a feature request about first-class support for load-time-weaving against the AnnotationConfigApplicationContext API and/or @Configuration programming model.

[zollen]

There is no direct equivalent of <context:load-time-weaver/> in @Configuration classes. Generally, where namespaces (like <context:*/>) are needed, it's recommended that you use the @ImportResource annotation to import just the snippet of XML that you need. e.g.:

@Configuration
@ImportResource("classpath:load-time-weaving.xml")
public class AppConfig {
    @Bean
    public AccountService accountService() {
        return new DefaultAccountService(...);
    }
}

load-time-weaving.xml:

<beans ...>
    <context:load-time-weaver/>
</beans>

Feel free to raise a feature request about first-class support for load-time-weaving against the AnnotationConfigApplicationContext API and/or @Configuration programming model.

I did exactly what you suggested, but it did not work. Here is my progress..
http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?t=84190