take a look athttp://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.aspectj/?root=Tools_Project find your way to this artifact:<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId> <artifactId>aspectjtools</artifactId> <packaging>jar</packaging> <version>1.8.5</version> <name>AspectJ tools</name> <description>Tools from the AspectJ project</description> <url>http://www.aspectj.org</url> take a gander at AjcTask.java and notice the setting of javac arg called 'proc' /** * Controls whether annotation processing and/or compilation is done. * -proc:none means that compilation takes place without annotation processing. * -proc:only means that only annotation processing is done, without any subsequent compilation. */ public void setProc(String proc) { if (proc.equals("none")) { cmd.addFlag("-proc:none", true); } else if (proc.equals("only")) { cmd.addFlag("-proc:only", true); } } -proc: {none,only}Controls whether annotation processing and/or compilation is done. -proc:none means that compilation takes place without annotation processing. -proc:only means that only annotation processing is done, without any subsequent compilation. javac -proc:only (needs to be set on any phase before compile such as generate-sources) within aspectj environment this is enabled by argument -Dorg.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.generateClassFiles on command line
javac -proc:none(needs to be set only on compile phase) -Dorg.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.generateClassFiles absent on command line HTH Martin > Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 13:42:53 +0200 > Subject: Re: Should I disable maven-compiler-plugin when using > aspectj-maven-compiler? > From: dagansand...@gmail.com > To: users@maven.apache.org > > Both, actually. > In any case, using aspectj compiler through the maven-compiler-plugin seems > to be causing more issues (it depends on an older version of aspectj tools, > and raising it causes API errors) so it's definitely not the way for me. > > I'm guessing my issue comes mainly from the fact that maven-compiler-plugin > 3.1+ has an issue with incremental compilation, so a workaround is > mandatory in the current situation... > It is indeed peculiar that there isn't more info on that matter but then > again I'm not sure how many people use aspectj and maven together > > Doing some more google work brought me to these: > - > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14614446/how-do-i-disable-the-maven-compiler-plugin > - > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24211943/aspectj-maven-plugin-declare-soft-how-to-compile > - https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/aspectj-users/msg14431.html > > The last one is actually a post from the aspectj-users mailing list from > about 2 years ago, asking about the same issue, although the person didn't > seem to get a response. > > > > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Anders Hammar <and...@hammar.net> wrote: > > > > > > > Does this act differently though than the aspectj-maven-plugin? Does it > > > play well with AJDT and eclipse? > > > > > > > I don't know; I don't use aspectj. Couldn't find any pointers on this in > > the aspact-maven-plugin docs so it might be the wrong path. However, > > couldn't find any instructions on using your workaround either...:-) > > As you stated "aspectj-compiler-plugin" in the subject, I thought that you > > wanted to use the aspectj compiler. But maybe I misunderstood and you just > > want to weave with aspectj? > > > > /Anders > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Anders Hammar <and...@hammar.net> > > wrote: > > > > > > > Can't you just tell maven-compiler-plugin to use the aspectj compiler? > > > > > > > > > > > > > https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-compiler-plugin/non-javac-compilers.html > > > > > > > > /Anders > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Dagan Sandler <dagansand...@gmail.com > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > I am in the process of updating my plugin definitions in all of the > > > > > projects I manage. > > > > > Notably, I tried updating maven-compiler-plugin from 2.5.1 to 3.3 but > > > > > encountered an issue in a project that uses aspectj-maven-plugin. > > > > > > > > > > The issue is, it seems, that the maven-compiler-plugin is invoked > > > before > > > > > the aspectj-maven-plugin, and causes the build to fail. > > > > > > > > > > I have previously used a workaround for this issue by setting the > > > > > aspectj-maven-plugin to execute in phase process-sources, so it's > > > invoked > > > > > before the maven plugin > > > > > However, in maven-compiler-plugin 3.1+ there's this bug > > > > > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MCOMPILER-209> which causes > > the > > > > > maven-compiler-plugin to recompile all sources and to fail the build, > > > so > > > > > you must set useIncrementalCompilation to *false* > > > > > > > > > > Another workaround I found before finding out about the incremental > > > build > > > > > bug, is to disable the maven-compiler-plugin altogether in that > > project > > > > and > > > > > let aspectj-maven-plugin do all the compilation by adding > > > > > <execution> > > > > > <id>default-compile</id> > > > > > <phase>none</phase> > > > > > </execution> > > > > > to the maven-compiler-plugin definition > > > > > > > > > > Anyone knows the downsides of any of these workarounds? Is there > > > another > > > > > configuration that I should be using instead of these options? > > > > > > > > > > > > > >