title: Spring + AspectJ weaving for java 8 using aspectj-maven-plugin
body: <p>I'm migrating my project from java 7 to java 8 and the problem I have is related to aspectj weaving using <code>aspectj-maven-plugin</code>.</p>
  
  <p>I could configure successfuly the weaving using this plugin running on Java 6 and 7 according to <a href="http://mojo.codehaus.org/aspectj-maven-plugin/examples/weaveJars.html" rel="noreferrer">Haus documentation</a>. But the problem is that I haven't found any way to use (and find) plugin version 7 that supports java 8. I saw <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASPECTJ/fixforversion/19839" rel="noreferrer">here</a> that plugin 7 adds java 8 support but couldn't find a way to use it.</p>
  
  <p>This is the configuration plugin I need:</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-xml prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;plugin&gt;
      &lt;groupId&gt;org.codehaus.mojo&lt;/groupId&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;aspectj-maven-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;version&gt;1.7&lt;/version&gt; &lt;!-- AspectJ weaver plugin 7 is for java 8 (version 1.6 is for java 7) --&gt;
            &lt;configuration&gt;
                &lt;complianceLevel&gt;1.8&lt;/complianceLevel&gt;
                &lt;source&gt;1.8&lt;/source&gt;
                &lt;target&gt;1.8&lt;/target&gt;
            &lt;/configuration&gt;
      &lt;executions&gt;
          &lt;execution&gt;
              &lt;goals&gt;
                  &lt;goal&gt;compile&lt;/goal&gt;
                  &lt;goal&gt;test-compile&lt;/goal&gt;
              &lt;/goals&gt;
          &lt;/execution&gt;
      &lt;/executions&gt;
  &lt;/plugin&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I confirmed that above code using version 1.6 works fine for Java 7, but had no luck trying to use version 1.7.</p>
  
  <p>Do you know how to run the weaver for spring+aspectj running on Java 8? </p>