12.9. Scoping the AOP to the classloader

The following process may change in future versions of JBoss AOP. If you deploy an AOP file as part of a scoped archive, the bindings (for instance) applied within the .aop/META-INF/jboss-aop.xml file will only apply to the classes within the scoped archive and not to anything else in the application server. Another alternative is to deploy -aop.xml files as part of a service archive (SAR). Again, if the SAR is scoped, the bindings contained in the -aop.xml files will only apply to the contents of the SAR file. It is not currently possible to deploy a standalone -aop.xml file and have that attach to a scoped deployment. Standalone -aop.xml files will apply to classes in the whole application server.