AspectJWeaver with JDK 7 - error - only supported at Java 5 compliance level or above
I came across this problem with an older project - when I switched from jdk6 to jdk7, when the application started I encountered:
nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.transaction.annotation.AnnotationTransactionAttributeSource#0': Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: error annotation type patterns are only supported at Java 5 compliance level or aboveI didn't want a purely maven solution because during development I run the app in Tomcat via the IDE (Intellij IDEA).
In the end I just upgraded my aspectjweaver dependency to 1.7.2 (it was 1.5.4)
<dependency>
<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectjweaver</artifactId>
<version>1.7.2</version>
</dependency>
Everything seems okay now.