Solution before the official release prior to Sep 2015
After many headaches and many hours struggling against this, fortunately I could solve this problem. Here is what I did:
To use aspectj-maven-plugin with Java 8 I could configure version aspectj-maven-plugin 1.7 (Note that aspectj-maven-plugin 1.6 works for Java 7).
So, the maven plugin configuration needs to be:
<!-- AspectJ configuration -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectj-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.7-SNAPSHOT</version>
<configuration>
<complianceLevel>1.8</complianceLevel>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>compile</goal>
<goal>test-compile</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
By the way, the aspectJ jars needed are:
<!-- Spring AOP + AspectJ -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
<version>1.8.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
<version>4.0.4.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectjweaver</artifactId>
<version>1.8.1</version>
</dependency>
The most important thing I've struggled was that to install the aspectj-maven-plugin 1.7 jar I had to do it manually since these jar/pom files aren't on maven repo yet.
Update: So, the jar file can be downloaded from Haus Jira link (look at the Attachment section). If Haus is not available anymore you can download it from my github:
https://github.com/fedepia/aspectj-maven-plugin-1.7
After download it and copy it to my local repo I needed to create my own aspectj-maven-plugin-1.7-SNAPSHOT.pom file within the directory:
.m2\repository\org\codehaus\mojo\aspectj-maven-plugin\1.7-SNAPSHOT\aspectj-maven-plugin-1.7-SNAPSHOT.pom
I based on a copy from version 1.6 but had to modify the following content:
<version>1.7-SNAPSHOT</version>
<properties>
<aspectjVersion>1.8.1</aspectjVersion>
<mavenVersion>2.2.1</mavenVersion>
<changesPluginVersion>2.9</changesPluginVersion>
</properties>
That's all here you go, hope to help.
Update: (adding more details as Xtreme Biker asked in the comments)
In my context configuration I have:
<aop:aspectj-autoproxy />
<bean id="notificationAspect" class="com.integration.core.aspect.NotificationAspect" factory-method="aspectOf" scope="singleton"></bean>
For my java aspect I use:
@Aspect
public class NotificationAspect
{
...
@AfterThrowing(pointcut="@annotation(com.integration.core.meta.NotifyOnFailure)", throwing="ex")
public void executeOnException(JoinPoint joinPoint, ExternalApiExecutionException ex) throws Throwable
{
...
Finally official plugin released since Sep 2015
This is an update to the answer with the official plugin release. In order to use Java 8 with AspectJ, the official aspectj maven plugin can be found on this link:
http://www.mojohaus.org/aspectj-maven-plugin/usage.html
Here is the link to maven repository:
http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.codehaus.mojo/aspectj-maven-plugin/1.8
As the documentation stated the code to use it is:
<project>
...
<dependencies>
...
<dependency>
<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
<version>1.8.7</version>
</dependency>
...
</dependencies>
...
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectj-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.8</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>compile</goal> <!-- use this goal to weave all your main classes -->
<goal>test-compile</goal> <!-- use this goal to weave all your test classes -->
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
...
</plugins>
<build>
...
</project>
