Re: [aspectwerkz-user] Re: How to point to WEB-INF/aop.xml with offline weaving?

Alexandru Popescu wrote:

>I am not sure I understood what you're trying to achieve.
>If you try to use offline weaving you still need the aop.xml at runtime. So after compile step, you
>run the aspectwerkz.bat using -offiline mode, and at runtime you provide the aop.xml in either
>META-INF dir or throught the system property -Daspectwerkz.definition.file=
>  
>
I understand I still need aop.xml at runtime.  I have a web app, which I 
offline weaved with the aspectwerkzc ant task (which I assume does the 
same the bat file does).  When I deploy the web app to tomcat (in 
exploded format), the same aop.xml is copied to WEB-INF/aop.xml.  Then 
when I try to run the web app, none of the aspects would kick in.  But 
if I go to the deployed web app directory,  create an empty directory 
WEB-INF/classes, restart the server, and try to access the web app 
again, everything works fine.

I hope I made myself clearer.
Thanks.

--Jing Xue