AspectJ Maven Plugin cannot compile my project

Question

I try to use aspectj maven plugin for compile project with aspectj compiler and then I try to package classes into "war" file. Unfortunately, it doesn't work with following configuration (pom.xml):

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.17</version>
            <configuration>
                <skipTests>true</skipTests>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>com.liferay.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>liferay-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>${liferay.maven.plugin.version}</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <phase>generate-sources</phase>
                </execution>
            </executions>
            <configuration>
                <autoDeployDir>${liferay.auto.deploy.dir}</autoDeployDir>
                <appServerDeployDir>${liferay.app.server.deploy.dir}</appServerDeployDir>
                <appServerLibGlobalDir>${liferay.app.server.lib.global.dir}</appServerLibGlobalDir>
                <appServerPortalDir>${liferay.app.server.portal.dir}</appServerPortalDir>
                <liferayVersion>${liferay.version}</liferayVersion>
                <pluginType>portlet</pluginType>

            </configuration>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.5</version>
            <configuration>
                <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
                <source>1.7</source>
                <target>1.7</target>
                <showWarnings>true</showWarnings>
                <failOnError>true</failOnError>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.5</version>
            <configuration>
                <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
            <artifactId>aspectj-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.7</version>
            <configuration>
                <source>1.7</source>
                <target>1.7</target>
                <compilationLevel>1.7</compilationLevel>
                <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
            </configuration>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <phase>process-sources</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>compile</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
    <artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
    <version>1.7.4</version>
    <type>jar</type>
</dependency>

After mvn clean install I see following exceptions:

[INFO] --- aspectj-maven-plugin:1.7:compile (default) @ tvbs-portlet ---
[INFO] Showing AJC message detail for messages of types: [error, warning, fail]
[ERROR] Missing message: configure.incompatibleComplianceForSource in: org.aspectj.ajdt.ajc.messages
    <unknown source file>:<no line information>

[ERROR] no sources specified
    <unknown source file>:<no line information>

[ERROR] AspectJ Compiler 1.8.2

    Usage: <options> <source file | @argfile>..

AspectJ-specific options:
    -inpath <list>      use classes in dirs and jars/zips in <list> as source

Could anybody suggest me some solution?

Answer 1

It seems like a known issue http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASPECTJ-125

You can fix it by adding the following to your pom file.

<complianceLevel>1.6</complianceLevel>

Answer 2

Having looked at your Maven project https://github.com/dmitrievanthony/test-aspectj I found out that

• the problem is totally unrelated to AspectJ Maven Plugin,
• the same compilation errors also occur in Maven Compiler Plugin and
• that the root cause of your problem is simply bad dependency management.

Here is a screenshot (full size here) from IntelliJ IDEA's "find class":

As you can see, class LockModeType is found in 3 (three!) dependencies, one of which contains a version of the class which does not contain the expected enum values. Your code compiles if you remove this dependency.

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
        <artifactId>ejb3-persistence</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.2.GA</version>
    </dependency>

Maybe you should clean up your dependencies. You can use the Maven Dependency Plugin with goals like dependency:analyze and dependency:tree for that purpose.

Answer 3

It will be work after change plugin configuration to following:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    <artifactId>aspectj-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.6</version>
    <configuration>
        <complianceLevel>1.7</complianceLevel>
        <source>1.7</source>
        <target>1.7</target>
        <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
    </configuration>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <phase>process-sources</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>compile</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                <complianceLevel>1.7</complianceLevel>
                <source>1.7</source>
                <target>1.7</target>
            </configuration>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

But after this I get a lot of different compilation errors:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:aspectj-maven-plugin:1.6:compile (default) on project tvbs-portlet: Compiler errors:
[ERROR] error at Entitle.class, entitleId, LockModeType.PESSIMISTIC_WRITE);
[ERROR]
[ERROR] /Users/<...>/ejb/BillingEJB.java:43:0::0 PESSIMISTIC_WRITE cannot be resolved or is not a field
[ERROR] error at .createQuery("select e from Entitle e " +
[ERROR]
[ERROR] /Users/<...>/ejb/EntitleEJB.java:62:0::0 The method createQuery(String) in the type EntityManager is not applicable for the arguments (String, Class<Entitle>)
[ERROR] error at return entityManager.createQuery(
[ERROR] ^^

Can cause is incorrect aspectj plugin parameters?