I love the concept of Ashcroft, but:
com.thoughtworks.ashcroft.runtime.CantDoThat: You can't read from files during unit tests: log4j.properties
at com.thoughtworks.ashcroft.runtime.JohnAshcroft.cantDoThat(JohnAshcroft.java:48)
Blocking access to log4j.properties is a little vicious when you use an aspect for logging which statically initializes a logger ;-)