Spring Data Graph and Eclipse - eclipse

Question

Spent 2 days trying to understand how to enable Eclipse work with Spring Data Graph, have no idea yet. The code is like this:
#NodeEntity
public class Person {
public Person() {
}
}
...
public class App {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Person p = new Person().persist();
}
}
This code is absolutely fine, when I build it with Maven. When I open the project in Eclipse, it says that there's no method persist() in class Person.
I'm using Eclipse 3.7 (on Ubuntu 11.04), Spring 3.0.6.BUILD-SNAPSHOT, AspectJ 1.6.12.BUILD-SNAPSHOT, Spring Data Graph 1.2.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT. I also have AJDT 2.2.0.e37x-20110815-2000 installed.
My Eclipse project is AspectJ-enabled (I have AJ on project's icon).
I'm wondering if anyone could tell me what are the exact versions of all these tools I need to install in order to get rid of errors in Eclipse.
Please, comment if these details are not enough.
Update:
Also posted this question to official Spring Data Graph forums:
http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?113629-Using-Spring-Data-Graph-in-real
no feedback so far.

Answer 1

It is used in real projects, no worries.
The problem you've encountered with the tooling is a sad part of the story.
We didn't anticipate that many issues with AJ in eclipse with the AJDT plugin developed by the AspectJ guys.
There is a second thread in the forum and a JIRA issue, in which the AJDT project lead concluded the following:
Make sure the Project Properties -> AspectJ -> Aspect Paths are set correctly
Make sure Window->Preferences->JDT Weaving in turned ON.
The build path "*/.aj" is NOT needed - I dont have it and it works fine.
A project build is required each time eclipse starts

Answer 2

Obsolete: See Michal Hunger's answer
I ran into the same problems, what did the trick for me was fixing the Java build path, as described here (the note) http://static.springsource.org/spring-data/data-graph/docs/current/reference/multi/programming-model.html
After that I had to clean and rebuild the project.
Hope that helps.

Answer 3

From the AJDT website:
AJDT configurator for m2e v1.0 is now available at http://dist.springsource.org/release/AJDT/configurator/. Add this update site to your Eclipse install manager to install the configurator. This configurator will ensure that Maven projects in Eclipse are properly configured with AspectJ and AJDT.
posted 09-30-11
I've installed the above and my AspectJ build path now has spring-aspects and spring-data-neo4j added, with the comment 'From: Maven Dependencies'. (As a side note: libs added to the AspectJ build path are also added to the Java build path).
However, I don't yet understand what the configurator does exactly or what is needed in the POM to 'activate' it, as the configurator properly adjusted (the AspectJ build path of) the cineasts project, but not my project based on the hello-world example. Can somebody shed some light on this?
Edit: Looks like the configuratior takes the aspectLibraries configuration option from the aspectj-maven-plugin (if found in the POM) and adds it to the aspectj build path of the project.
Looks like we're getting closer to a good integration :-)
(Sorry for posting another answer, not much option with my reputation atm).