How to configure Spring to use aspectj for Transactional?

Question

According this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/3429757/2674303 To use @Transactional when I execute local method I did following steps:

added to pom.xml:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
        <artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
        <version>1.8.7</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
        <artifactId>aspectjweaver</artifactId>
        <version>1.8.7</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-aspects</artifactId>
    </dependency>

replace in context

<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager"/>

with

<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" mode="aspectj"/>

after it I saw

Could not obtain transaction-synchronized Session for current thread

additionally added:

<context:load-time-weaver/>

But when make mvn clean install I see(problem occures when tests try to execute. In my test I up appliction context):

    java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to load ApplicationContext
    at org.springframework.test.context.DefaultCacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.loadContext(DefaultCacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.java:94)
    at org.springframework.test.context.DefaultTestContext.getApplicationContext(DefaultTestContext.java:72)
    at org.springframework.test.context.support.DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.injectDependencies(DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.java:117)
    ....
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.context.weaving.AspectJWeavingEnabler#0': Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'loadTimeWeaver': Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: ClassLoader [sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader] does NOT provide an 'addTransformer(ClassFileTransformer)' method. Specify a custom LoadTimeWeaver or start your Java virtual machine with Spring's agent: -javaagent:org.springframework.instrument.jar
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:547)

    ... 31 more
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'loadTimeWeaver': Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: ClassLoader [sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader] does NOT provide an 'addTransformer(ClassFileTransformer)' method. Specify a custom LoadTimeWeaver or start your Java virtual machine with Spring's agent: -javaagent:org.springframework.instrument.jar
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:547)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:476)

    ... 45 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: ClassLoader [sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader] does NOT provide an 'addTransformer(ClassFileTransformer)' method. Specify a custom LoadTimeWeaver or start your Java virtual machine with Spring's agent: -javaagent:org.springframework.instrument.jar
    at org.springframework.context.weaving.DefaultContextLoadTimeWeaver.setBeanClassLoader(DefaultContextLoadTimeWeaver.java:91)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeAwareMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1590)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1561)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:539)
    ... 54 more

update

entire pom.xml:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">


    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>com.terminal</groupId>
    <artifactId>terminal-company</artifactId>
    <packaging>war</packaging>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>terminal-company</name>


    <properties>
        <spring.version>4.1.6.RELEASE</spring.version>
        <spring.security.version>3.2.4.RELEASE</spring.security.version>
        <org.slf4j-version>1.5.10</org.slf4j-version>
        <jetty.version>9.2.5.v20141112</jetty.version>
    </properties>

    <dependencyManagement>
        <dependencies>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-framework-bom</artifactId>
                <version>${spring.version}</version>
                <type>pom</type>
                <scope>import</scope>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-security-bom</artifactId>
                <version>${spring.security.version}</version>
                <type>pom</type>
                <scope>import</scope>
            </dependency>
        </dependencies>
    </dependencyManagement>

    <dependencies>
        <!-- Web -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
            <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
            <version>1.2</version>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
            <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
            <version>3.1.0</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.el</groupId>
            <artifactId>el-api</artifactId>
            <version>2.2</version>
        </dependency>

        <!-- Data -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>postgresql</groupId>
            <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
            <version>9.0-801.jdbc4</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
            <artifactId>h2</artifactId>
            <version>1.4.182</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
            <artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
            <version>1.8.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
            <artifactId>aspectjweaver</artifactId>
            <version>1.8.0</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>javassist</groupId>
            <artifactId>javassist</artifactId>
            <version>3.12.0.GA</version>
        </dependency>

        <!-- Spring Security -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-security-core</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-security-taglibs</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <!-- Integration-->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.integration</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-integration-http</artifactId>
            <version>${spring.version}</version>
        </dependency>


        <!-- Hibernate -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
            <artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
            <version>4.3.10.Final</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
            <artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
            <version>5.1.3.Final</version>
        </dependency>

        <!-- logging -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
            <version>${org.slf4j-version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
            <version>${org.slf4j-version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
            <version>${org.slf4j-version}</version>
        </dependency>

        <!-- JSON -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
            <version>1.9.12</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.json</groupId>
            <artifactId>json</artifactId>
            <version>20140107</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
            <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
            <version>1.7.1</version>
        </dependency>

        <!-- Commons -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>commons-beanutils</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-beanutils</artifactId>
            <version>1.8.3</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
            <version>3.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
            <version>2.4</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>commons-fileupload</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-fileupload</artifactId>
            <version>1.3</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
            <artifactId>poi</artifactId>
            <version>3.8</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>commons-httpclient</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-httpclient</artifactId>
            <version>3.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
            <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
            <version>4.0.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.mail</groupId>
            <artifactId>mail</artifactId>
            <version>1.4</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- Test -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>4.11</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
            <artifactId>mockito-all</artifactId>
            <version>1.10.19</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>


        <!-- other -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.imgscalr</groupId>
            <artifactId>imgscalr-lib</artifactId>
            <version>4.2</version>
            <type>jar</type>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>net.sourceforge.pmd</groupId>
            <artifactId>pmd-jsp</artifactId>
            <version>5.2.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>net.sourceforge.pmd</groupId>
            <artifactId>pmd-core</artifactId>
            <version>5.2.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>net.sourceforge.pmd</groupId>
            <artifactId>pmd-java</artifactId>
            <version>5.2.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>xml-apis</groupId>
            <artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>
            <version>1.4.01</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>commons-dbcp</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-dbcp</artifactId>
            <version>1.4</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
            <artifactId>httpcore</artifactId>
            <version>4.4</version>
            <type>jar</type>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.velocity</groupId>
            <artifactId>velocity</artifactId>
            <version>1.7</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.velocity</groupId>
            <artifactId>velocity-tools</artifactId>
            <version>2.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.tika</groupId>
            <artifactId>tika-core</artifactId>
            <version>1.9</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>net.bull.javamelody</groupId>
            <artifactId>javamelody-core</artifactId>
            <version>1.56.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
            <artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
            <version>1.8.7</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
            <artifactId>aspectjweaver</artifactId>
            <version>1.8.7</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-aspects</artifactId>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <build>
        <finalName>terminal-company</finalName>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-pmd-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.3</version>
                <configuration>
                    <includeTests>true</includeTests>
                    <printFailingErrors>true</printFailingErrors>
                    <verbose>true</verbose>
                    <rulesets>
                        <ruleset>rulesets/java/basic.xml</ruleset>
                        <ruleset>rulesets/java/braces.xml</ruleset>
                        <ruleset>rulesets/java/unusedcode.xml</ruleset>
                        <!--<ruleset>rulesets/java/codesize.xml</ruleset>-->
                        <ruleset>rulesets/java/imports.xml</ruleset>
                        <ruleset>rulesets/java/empty.xml</ruleset>
                        <ruleset>rulesets/jsp/basic.xml</ruleset>
                        <ruleset>ruleset-naming.xml</ruleset>
                    </rulesets>
                    <includes>
                        <include>**\/*.jsp</include>
                        <include>**\/*.java</include>
                    </includes>
                </configuration>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>check</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <excludeFromFailureFile>${basedir}/src/main/resources/exclude-pmd.properties
                            </excludeFromFailureFile>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.2</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.8</source>
                    <target>1.8</target>
                    <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.1.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <warName>terminal-company</warName>
                    <webXml>src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml</webXml>
                    <webResources>
                        <resource>
                            <directory>${basedir}/src/main/resources/</directory>
                            <targetPath>/</targetPath>
                        </resource>
                    </webResources>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <!-- IDE -->
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                <artifactId>tomcat-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.1</version>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
                <artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>${jetty.version}</version>
                <configuration>
                    <webAppConfig>
                        <contextPath>/</contextPath>
                    </webAppConfig>
                    <httpConnector>
                        <port>8081</port>
                    </httpConnector>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.3</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <phase>package</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>copy</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <artifactItems>
                                <artifactItem>
                                    <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
                                    <artifactId>jetty-runner</artifactId>
                                    <version>8.1.15.v20140411</version>
                                    <destFileName>jetty-runner.jar</destFileName>
                                </artifactItem>
                            </artifactItems>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.flywaydb</groupId>
                <artifactId>flyway-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <url>jdbc:postgresql://127.0.0.1:5432/marc_db</url>
                    <user>marc</user>
                    <password>marc</password>
                </configuration>
                <dependencies>
                    <dependency>
                        <groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
                        <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
                        <version>9.4-1200-jdbc4</version>
                    </dependency>
                </dependencies>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
    <repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>central</id>
            <name>Maven Repository Switchboard</name>
            <layout>default</layout>
            <url>http://repo1.maven.org/maven2</url>
            <snapshots>
                <enabled>false</enabled>
            </snapshots>
        </repository>
        <repository>
            <id>spring-maven-release</id>
            <name>Spring Maven Release Repository</name>
            <url>http://maven.springframework.org/release</url>
        </repository>
        <repository>
            <id>spring-maven-milestone</id>
            <name>Spring Maven Milestone Repository</name>
            <url>http://maven.springframework.org/milestone</url>
        </repository>
        <repository>
            <id>JBoss Repo</id>
            <url>https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/releases</url>
            <name>JBoss Repo</name>
        </repository>
        <repository>
            <id>codelds</id>
            <url>https://code.lds.org/nexus/content/groups/main-repo</url>
        </repository>
        <repository>
            <id>glassfish-repository</id>
            <url>http://download.java.net/maven/glassfish</url>
            <snapshots>
                <updatePolicy>never</updatePolicy>
            </snapshots>
        </repository>
    </repositories>
    <pluginRepositories>
        <pluginRepository>
            <id>spring-maven-release</id>
            <name>Spring Maven Release Repository</name>
            <url>http://maven.springframework.org/release</url>
        </pluginRepository>
        <pluginRepository>
            <id>spring-maven-milestone</id>
            <name>Spring Maven Milestone Repository</name>
            <url>http://maven.springframework.org/milestone</url>
        </pluginRepository>
        <pluginRepository>
            <id>spring-roo-repository</id>
            <name>Spring Roo Repository</name>
            <url>http://spring-roo-repository.springsource.org/release</url>
        </pluginRepository>
        <pluginRepository>
            <id>central</id>
            <name>Maven Plugin Repository</name>
            <url>http://repo1.maven.org/maven2</url>
            <layout>default</layout>
            <snapshots>
                <enabled>false</enabled>
            </snapshots>
            <releases>
                <updatePolicy>never</updatePolicy>
            </releases>
        </pluginRepository>
    </pluginRepositories>
</project>

update 2:

If skip test phase while building application - build success and then run mvn clean install jetty:run I see following stacktrace:

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.transaction.config.internalTransactionAspect': Post-processing failed of bean type [class org.springframework.transaction.aspectj.AnnotationTransactionAspect] failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to introspect annotations: protected abstract void org.springframework.transaction.aspectj.AbstractTransactionAspect.ajc$pointcut$$transactionalMethodExecution$e12(java.lang.Object)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyMergedBeanDefinitionPostProcessors(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:936)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:512)
    ...
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to introspect annotations: protected abstract void org.springframework.transaction.aspectj.AbstractTransactionAspect.ajc$pointcut$$transactionalMethodExecution$e12(java.lang.Object)
    at org.springframework.core.annotation.AnnotatedElementUtils.process(AnnotatedElementUtils.java:166)
    ... 69 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalAccessError: class sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor14 cannot access its superclass sun.reflect.ConstructorAccessorImpl
    at sun.misc.Unsafe.defineClass(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.ClassDefiner.defineClass(ClassDefiner.java:63)
    ... 76 more
13.11.2015 04:57:35 ERROR: org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader - Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.transaction.config.internalTransactionAspect': Post-processing failed of bean type [class org.springframework.transaction.aspectj.AnnotationTransactionAspect] failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to introspect annotations: protected abstract void org.springframework.transaction.aspectj.AbstractTransactionAspect.ajc$pointcut$$transactionalMethodExecution$e12(java.lang.Object)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyMergedBeanDefinitionPostProcessors(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:936)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:512)
    ...
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to introspect annotations: protected abstract void org.springframework.transaction.aspectj.AbstractTransactionAspect.ajc$pointcut$$transactionalMethodExecution$e12(java.lang.Object)
    at org.springframework.core.annotation.AnnotatedElementUtils.process(AnnotatedElementUtils.java:166)
    at org.springframework.core.annotation.AnnotatedElementUtils.getAnnotationAttributes(AnnotatedElementUtils.java:91) 
    ... 69 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalAccessError: class sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor14 cannot access its superclass sun.reflect.ConstructorAccessorImpl
    at sun.misc.Unsafe.defineClass(Native Method)   
    ... 76 more

update 3

Also I tried to add

@Configuration
@EnableLoadTimeWeaving(aspectjWeaving= EnableLoadTimeWeaving.AspectJWeaving.ENABLED)
public class Configiuration {

I see same result

update 4:

class which uses Transactional annotation:

@Service
@Transactional
public class CompanyServiceImpl implements CompanyService {
    @PostConstruct
    public void init() {
        this.refreshStopJobs();
    }
    ...
}

Solution

Actually this post wa helpful for me

@duffymo: Spring's Transaction support via AspectJ is build in. — Ralph, Nov 09 '15 at 13:33
@duffymo http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3423972/spring-transaction-method-call-by-the-method-within-the-same-class-does-not-wo — gstackoverflow, Nov 09 '15 at 13:34
Unless they changed it, Spring 1.0 didn't have AspectJ, but it did have transactions. Used vanilla Spring aspects. — duffymo, Nov 09 '15 at 13:34
@gstackoverflow You say in your post that the error occus when running `mvn clean install`. Is that true or is it when the application is deployed? — Tunaki, Nov 13 '15 at 12:54
@Tunaki is it true because It breaks on test phase. if skip this phase and run mvn clean install jetty:run I see a bit another error. Please let me a minute ti update topic — gstackoverflow, Nov 13 '15 at 12:58
You use bom spring and direct dependency spring-aspects ?, can you doing mvn dependency:tree — question_maven_com, Nov 13 '15 at 13:26
@http://textuploader.com/56jzp I cannot paste result in my topic because topic size is limited. You can see result here: http://textuploader.com/56jzp — gstackoverflow, Nov 13 '15 at 13:37
Can you post the class where you are using the @Transactional annotation? — LucasP, Nov 13 '15 at 13:48

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 13 '15 at 15:36

Basically to make AspectJ Load Time Weaving to work you need at first think of environment your app is going to work. As the name says the "load time" means that your classes are going to be changed by classloader. So from your question I understand that you need yours LTW in two environment. First is the "Test" environment that is command line and second is the Servlet Container (Jetty/Tomcat).

So lets start from the Test Environment: Your tests are failing because classloader has no chance to edit/instrument/weave you classes, Spring can't help you as it isn't yet running and you have chosen Load Time over Run Time Weaving. So we need somehow tell the default classloader that we are going to hack to classes. This is documented at Spring Documentation To do so we need to add -javaagent which in our case instead of instrumenting/profiling runtime will just change the classes at load time. To achieve this just tell maven to add 2 javaaganets : the aspectj-weaver-x.jar and special spring-instrument-x.jar, so just in your maven plugins section add.

<plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.19</version>
        <configuration>
            <forkMode>once</forkMode>
            <argLine>
                    -javaagent:${settings.localRepository}/org/springframework/spring-instrument/4.2.2.RELEASE/spring-instrument-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar
                    -javaagent:${settings.localRepository}/org/aspectj/aspectjweaver/1.8.7/aspectjweaver-1.8.7.jar
            </argLine>
            <useSystemClassloader>true</useSystemClassloader>
        </configuration>
</plugin>

Just remember to add spring-instrument-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar as dependency at least in provided scope to be sure that it is in the repo ;) After adding this configuration settings you tests execution will work fine. Just try:

mvn clean package

Next lets start with the second environment the Servlet Container. If you are running Tomcat then you are happy, as you can overrride default classloader by the one which is shipped with spring by adding following META-INF/context.xml to your project.

<Context path="/myWebApp" docBase="/my/webApp/location">
    <Loader
    loaderClass="org.springframework.instrument.classloading.tomcat.TomcatInstrumentableClassLoader"/>
</Context>

More info here. For Jetty you should manually edit the run script and add two -javaagents as we have done for maven test environment.

It is not that hard, but Spring guys do not support Jettys clasloader, so you need just edit the run script and add the java agents to the Jetty start-up script ... — Babl, Nov 13 '15 at 21:52
Ok. I am trying to run with tomcat from local idea- Error:ajc: invalid source option, source is either '1.3' or '1.4': 8 — gstackoverflow, Nov 13 '15 at 21:56
Bro, I have never used Idea, so for proof of concept just run Tomcat in standalone mode. So create the .war file. Put it int the webapps and start the Tomcat using startup.sh script. — Babl, Nov 13 '15 at 22:00
Ok, it getting more and more interesting ;) just to help you with your case, create sinple projet based on the one which you are developing, push it to github and share the link, I'll create a PR for you with working stuf ,) — Babl, Nov 13 '15 at 22:13
on tomcat I see. Caused by: org.hibernate.HibernateException: Could not obtain transaction-synchronized Session for current thread. aspectj should fix this issue — gstackoverflow, Nov 14 '15 at 08:01
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/95113/discussion-between-babl-and-gstackoverflow). — Babl, Nov 14 '15 at 09:23
for those having "Error:ajc: invalid source option, source is either" check the version of the ajc compiler that you are using. You can run into this problem using aspectjtools-1.6.1.jar as ajc and target byte code version of 1.8 — demian, Apr 27 '18 at 18:29

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 13 '15 at 13:57

In the XML config you used

<context:load-time-weaver/>

however with the default mode autodect load time weaving will only be done if you have a META-INF/aop.xml file. Since you don't seem to have one you should change it to

<context:load-time-weaver aspectj-weaving="on"/>

or add an META-INF/aop.xml. I see you did do that in the Java config, but it seems you the bulk of your config in XML.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 20 '15 at 07:39

You may wish to refer this useful link:

Spring 2.0 AOP - Spring 2.0 introduces a simpler and more powerful way of writing custom aspects using either a schema-based approach or the @AspectJ annotation style. Both of these styles offer fully typed advice and use of the AspectJ pointcut language, while still using Spring AOP for weaving.

The Spring 2.0 schema- and @AspectJ-based AOP support is discussed in this chapter. Spring 2.0 AOP remains fully backwards compatible with Spring 1.2 AOP, and the lower-level AOP support offered by the Spring 1.2 APIs is discussed in the following chapter.

http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/html/aop.html