Spring @AspectJ not supported

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Spring AOP using Java annotations is not supported: http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-reference/html/aop.html#aop-ataspectj

Even after adding the AspectJ runtime, which is not a part of the Alfresco distribution, to the Alfresco repository classpath, creating AOP proxies still leads to ClassNotFoundExceptions. This problem may be too hard to solve, hence this is marked as a known issue.

Supported Spring AOP strategies:

Using implementations ofAbstractAutoProxyCreator (such as BeanNameAutoProxyCreator) does work. In fact, Dynamic Extensions uses this approach to support @RunAs and @Transactional.

Untested:

AOP schema support has not yet been tested, but may work: http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-reference/html/aop.html#aop-schema