There is a plugin in beta for AspectJ http://mojo.codehaus.org/aspectj-maven-plugin/.
<plugin> <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId> <artifactId>aspectj-maven-plugin</artifactId> <executions> <execution> <configuration> <source>1.5</source> <target>1.5</target> </configuration> <goals> <goal>compile</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin>
mvn package builds my project with the same "before advice" warning. But again despite the warning the exceptions are handled!!