Upgrade to AspectJ 1.9 beta 7 [SPR-15974]

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Juergen Hoeller opened SPR-15974 and commented

We're currently building against AspectJ 1.9 beta 6 for JDK 9 compatibility in our test suite. It'd be great to get out of beta there for our 5.0 GA release.

If AspectJ 1.9 remains in pre-release stage for some further time, we'll have to separate the version that we're exposing in the spring-aspects POM (downgraded to 1.8.10) from the one that we use in our framework build (latest 1.9 milestone), eventually catching up once AspectJ 1.9 goes GA.

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Affects: 5.0 RC4

Issue Links:

• Pointcut evaluation fails against AbstractHandlerMethodMapping$MappingRegistry with AspectJ 1.8.10 [SPR-15019] #19586 Pointcut evaluation fails against AbstractHandlerMethodMapping$MappingRegistry with AspectJ 1.8.10
• spring-aspects should remain on AspectJ 1.8.9 by default (since aspectjrt 1.8.10 requires Java 7+) [SPR-15836] #20391 spring-aspects should remain on AspectJ 1.8.9 by default (since aspectjrt 1.8.10 requires Java 7+)
• Compatibility with JDK 9 GA [SPR-15992] #18941 Compatibility with JDK 9 GA
• Upgrade to AspectJ 1.9 beta 3 (for build compatibility with JDK 9 build 95+) [SPR-13839] #18412 Upgrade to AspectJ 1.9 beta 3 (for build compatibility with JDK 9 build 95+)
• Spring 4.0.0.RELEASE depends on aspectjweaver 1.8.0.M1 not found in Maven Central [SPR-11273] #15898 Spring 4.0.0.RELEASE depends on aspectjweaver 1.8.0.M1 not found in Maven Central
• Upgrade to AspectJ 1.9 RC1 [SPR-16077] #20626 Upgrade to AspectJ 1.9 RC1

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Juergen Hoeller commented

AspectJ 1.9 beta 7 is available now, so we're going to use this one for ajc in spring-aspects (where we actually need a special JDK compatible version) and for running the spring-aop tests (since several tests otherwise won't pass)... while exposing AspectJ 1.8.10 as a runtime dependency in our Maven POMs (which is known to work on JDK 9 as well for common purposes, and can be individually upgraded to 1.9 in user POMs if necessary).

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Juergen Hoeller commented

We're exposing AspectJ 1.8.11 now, also for the spring-aop and spring-context tests where it's known to work fine on JDK 9 for our purposes. So AspectJ 1.9 beta 7 is only used for ajc in spring-aspects now, as originally intended.