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

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[quote Jing Xue::on 4/24/2005 10:00 PM]
> 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
> 

What i don't get is where are your classes deploeyed if you don't have a WEB-INF/classes. I advise
you to place the aop.xml file under a META-INF dir as explained in a previous mail, as
WEB-INF/aop.xml is only working with Tomcat (afaik).

- --:alex |.::the_mindstorm::.|
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