Spring AOP - exclude specific aspects?

I'm using Spring 3.0.5, and was wondering if it's possible, to somehow exclude aspect classes from being loaded that have been annotated with the @Aspect stereotype, but at the same time, include other aspect annotated classes? It seems to be an all or nothing if you're going the annotation route(which I am) I've tried looking at the and but can;t seem to find anything that hints at this.

The reason for this 开发者_开发知识库is that I have a central core library which contains aspects, but I may not want to include these aspects in every project I create using this central library.

Thanks.

This is a long time for an answer...

If you are using AspectJ annotations with Spring AOP and not AspectJ runtime or compile-time weaving then you're in luck. Spring will only pick up @Aspect annotated classes if they're annotated with something like @Component as well. Spring does not consider @Aspect a candidate for component scanning. If you're using XML configuration, simply remove that bean from your config.

I would suggest NOT using component scanning that would hit a core library. For example, if your app is com.example.myapp1 and your core library is com.example.corelibrary.* make sure your component scanning is looking at com.example.myapp1 ONLY and not com.example.

It is not safe to component scan outside of your app's base package because of this exact reason. Pull in the individual aspects with an XML config for the bean.