This is to cover https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=124460 which relates to the use of aop.xml configure compile time and binary weaving, in addition to load time weaving. For source compilation and binary weaving the goal is to offer the same experience users will get when using their aop.xml for LTW. Additionally for source compilation it also offers a way to control aspects when they are extracted from source src zip and then used across some set of source folders they were never originally intended for (see the compiling spring bug where a test aspect is leaking across all the source folders in the whole of spring). So - that means consuming aspects from either the inpath/aspectpath or source folders should include aop.xml searching. Or they can be specified directly as source entries perhaps when passing source files: ajc A.java B.java foo.xml -- Testing - basic aop.xml that includes one aspect - the variety of mungers (checkers/itd members/advice/decp/deca) - wildcarded includes/excludes - compound type patterns for scope - new messages: ignoring weaver sections, scoping aspects, excluding aspects, problems processing aop.xml - aspect supertypes included if subtypes excluded? - annotation style - inner aspects - needs a command line option to switch support for this on/off (ie. to make it search for xml files on aspectpath/inpath - we dont want unexpected behaviour) -- Implementation Notes - Just because the contents of the aspect are not used in weaving, doesnt mean the aspect shouldn't be fully compiled/resolved and written to the bin folder correctly as a valid aspect for later consumption. So we can't short circuit resolution if the aspect is included - we really just want to exclude inclusion of that aspect in the crosscuttingset - or maybe even later we just want to skip any mungers that came from it (but what about inherited mungers from supertypes?)