IoC Containers and AspectJ -- LazyWeb
Speaking of AOP -- a problem we have not found a good solution for is using an IoC container with AspectJ. You have no control over how aspects are instantiated at runtime, so you cannot exactly obtain them from a container.
The best we have come up with so far is to provide a static service lookup component that can provide the container to the aspect via a lookup. Yuck, completely breaks the point of the container. Static lookup to obtain a container and then use it to lookup components... far from ideal.
In cases where we've used proxy based AOP the container isn't a problem, but I find myself, and others at the company I work for, leaning more and more towards AspectJ from proxy based options.
Anyone have any ideas?