We are pleased to announce the Maven AspectJ Plugin 4.0-SNAPSHOT release! http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/aspectj/ =============================================================================== Changes in this version include: New Features: o Added maven.aspectj.failonerror property. Fixes MPASPECTJ-24. Thanks to Shinobu Kawai. Changes: o Upgraded to AspectJ 1.5.0 Fixes MPASPECTJ-21. o Add support for iajc's messageHolderClass attribute and added maven.dependency.classpath to the iajc's taskdef so that custom message holder classes will be found at execution time. Fixes MPASPECTJ-19. =============================================================================== To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line: maven plugin:download -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://www.ibiblio.org/maven,http://cvs.apache.org/repository/ -DgroupId=maven -DartifactId=maven-aspectj-plugin -Dversion=4.0-SNAPSHOT For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-aspectj-plugin-4.0-SNAPSHOT.jar Have fun! -The Maven AspectJ Plugin development team