I am happy to report that after much delay the Mojohaus team has finally fixed the Aspectj Maven plugin to allow disabling the annotation processing by the aspectj compiler. It will be fixed in version 1.8 of the plugin. You may recall that back in April I was forced to fork the project to fix this and move on so I could do our Spring 4.1 upgrade. I look forward to switching back to the community version and at that point I will probably delete my github repository as I never wanted to maintain my own version to begin with. Now back to some programming on my new Cassandra layer…