Ignoring Aspectj during junit tests - spring

Question

Here is situation:
We have class with defined aspect to it's methodA;
We have JUnit test for this methodA;
When I run JUnit test it activates Aspect as well. Any thoughts how to ignore Aspects during unit tests?
I have separated tests for my Aspects and it works fine. So in my unit test I want to test only methodA without any attached aspects.
I use spring 3.0 and its aspectj support.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Max

Answer 1

You can disable the compile-time weaving that I assume your IDE is doing and use load-time weaving in your separated AspectJ tests.
To enable load-time weaving you have to provide a javaagent as an JVM parameter.
An example:
-javaagent:lib/spring-dependencies/spring-agent.jar
Other changes when you move from compile-time to load-time weaving
You must also provide an aop.xml file in the META-INF folder on the claspath.
For my trace example, it looks like this:
<!DOCTYPE aspectj PUBLIC
"-//AspectJ//DTD//EN" "http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/dtd/aspectj.dtd">
<aspectj>
<weaver>
<!-- only weave classes in this package -->
<include within="aspects.trace.demo.*" />
</weaver>
<aspects>
<!-- use only this aspect for weaving -->
<aspect name="aspects.trace.TraceAspect" />
</aspects>
</aspectj>
In this configuration you can see that the TraceAspect class will be weaved with all the classes in the demo package.
Spring configuration with load-time weaving
<?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"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
<bean id="traceAspect" class="aspects.trace.TraceAspect"
factory-method="aspectOf"/>
<context:load-time-weaver />
</beans>
The configuration file is almost the same as the compile-time configuration file, except it also contains a load-time weaver element.
I hope this helps!