Getting issue while deploying Spring containing aspect annotation with parenthesis.

Issue

• Getting the following exception when trying to deploy Spring 3.1.2 application containing aspect annotation with parenthesis.

ERROR [org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] (MSC service thread 1-5) Context initialization failed: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'customBean': Injection of autowired dependencies failed;

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Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: error Type referred to is not an annotation type: abc$xyz$pqr$MyAspectClass
    at org.aspectj.weaver.tools.PointcutParser.parsePointcutExpression(PointcutParser.java:301) 
    at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJExpressionPointcut.buildPointcutExpression(AspectJExpressionPointcut.java:207) 
    at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJExpressionPointcut.getFallbackPointcutExpression(AspectJExpressionPointcut.java:358) 
        ...

• Getting java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: error Type referred to is not an annotation type while deploying a Spring application with a class having aspect annotation with parenthesis.