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When you are running JBoss AOP outside of the application server there are a few ways that the JBoss AOP framework can resolve XML files.
jboss.aop.path
This is a system property that is a ';' (Windows) or ':' (Unix)
delimited list of XML files and/or directories. If the item in the list is a directory, JBoss AOP
will load any xml file in those directories with the filename suffix
-aop.xml
META-INF/jboss-aop.xml
Any JAR file in your CLASSPATH that has a
jboss-aop.xml
file in the
META-INF/
will be loaded. JBoss AOP does a
ClassLoader.getResources("META-INF/jboss-aop.xml")
to obtain all these files.