diff --git a/modules/dcache/pom.xml b/modules/dcache/pom.xml
index 04bcb017543..e0ec6f7f7e6 100644
--- a/modules/dcache/pom.xml
+++ b/modules/dcache/pom.xml
@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@
     <dependency>
         <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
         <artifactId>aspectjweaver</artifactId>
+        <scope>runtime</scope>
     </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
@@ -303,6 +304,11 @@
               </dependencies>
           </plugin>
 
+          <plugin>
+              <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+              <artifactId>aspectj-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+          </plugin>
+
           <plugin>
               <groupId>org.datanucleus</groupId>
               <artifactId>datanucleus-maven-plugin</artifactId>
diff --git a/modules/dcache/src/main/aspect/org/dcache/util/aspects/PerInstanceAnnotationTransactionAspect.aj b/modules/dcache/src/main/aspect/org/dcache/util/aspects/PerInstanceAnnotationTransactionAspect.aj
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..98fc0ceba15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/dcache/src/main/aspect/org/dcache/util/aspects/PerInstanceAnnotationTransactionAspect.aj
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+/* This class incorporates code from
+ *
+ *     org.springframework.transaction.aspectj.AnnotationTransactionAspect
+ *
+ * which is subject to the following license:
+ *
+ * Copyright 2002-2013 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.dcache.util.aspects;
+
+import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.AnnotationTransactionAttributeSource;
+import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Transactional;
+import org.springframework.transaction.aspectj.AbstractTransactionAspect;
+
+/**
+ * Advice @Transactional classes and methods with transaction manager
+ * controlled transactions.
+ *
+ * Similar to AnnotationTransactionAspect, but in contrast to AnnotationTransactionAspect
+ * this class is not a singleton. Thus it can be used in the presence of multiple
+ * Spring ApplicationContext instances.
+ *
+ * @see org.dcache.util.aspects.PerInstanceAnnotationTransactionBeanPostProcessor
+ */
+public aspect PerInstanceAnnotationTransactionAspect extends AbstractTransactionAspect perthis(instantiationOfTransactionalClass())
+{
+    public PerInstanceAnnotationTransactionAspect() {
+        super(new AnnotationTransactionAttributeSource(false));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Matches the execution of any public method in a type with the Transactional
+     * annotation, or any subtype of a type with the Transactional annotation.
+     */
+    private pointcut executionOfAnyPublicMethodInAtTransactionalType() :
+            execution(public * ((@Transactional *)+).*(..)) && within(@Transactional *);
+
+    /**
+     * Matches the execution of any method with the Transactional annotation.
+     */
+    private pointcut executionOfTransactionalMethod() :
+            execution(@Transactional * *(..));
+
+    /**
+     * Definition of pointcut from super aspect - matched join points
+     * will have Spring transaction management applied.
+     */
+    protected pointcut transactionalMethodExecution(Object txObject) :
+            (executionOfAnyPublicMethodInAtTransactionalType()
+                    || executionOfTransactionalMethod() )
+                    && this(txObject);
+
+    /**
+     * Marker interface to tag classes that have methods subject to transaction demarcation.
+     *
+     * The marker is needed so we can bind the perthis Aspect instantiation to the constructor
+     * invocation. This in turn is needed to let PerInstanceAnnotationTransactionBeanPostProcessor
+     * inject the transaction manager during the Spring configuration phase.
+     */
+    public interface HasTransactional {} // marker
+
+    /**
+     * Matches any constructor of classes implementing the HasTransactional marker.
+     */
+    pointcut instantiationOfTransactionalClass() :
+            execution(HasTransactional+.new(..));
+
+    /**
+     * Make any class that has transactional methods implement HasTransactional.
+     */
+    declare parents : hasmethod(@Transactional * *(..)) implements HasTransactional;
+    declare parents : @Transactional * implements HasTransactional;
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/modules/dcache/src/main/aspect/org/dcache/util/aspects/PerInstanceAnnotationTransactionBeanPostProcessor.java b/modules/dcache/src/main/aspect/org/dcache/util/aspects/PerInstanceAnnotationTransactionBeanPostProcessor.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e4ce1ef8b08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/dcache/src/main/aspect/org/dcache/util/aspects/PerInstanceAnnotationTransactionBeanPostProcessor.java
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+/* dCache - http://www.dcache.org/
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2014 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
+ *
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
+ * License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package org.dcache.util.aspects;
+
+import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactoryAware;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanPostProcessor;
+import org.springframework.transaction.PlatformTransactionManager;
+
+/**
+ * BeanPostProcessor to configure PerInstanceAnnotationTransactionAspect instances.
+ */
+public class PerInstanceAnnotationTransactionBeanPostProcessor implements BeanPostProcessor, BeanFactoryAware
+{
+    private PlatformTransactionManager txManager;
+    private BeanFactory beanFactory;
+
+    @Override
+    public Object postProcessBeforeInitialization(Object bean, String beanName) throws BeansException
+    {
+        if (bean instanceof PerInstanceAnnotationTransactionAspect.HasTransactional) {
+            PerInstanceAnnotationTransactionAspect aspect = PerInstanceAnnotationTransactionAspect.aspectOf(bean);
+            aspect.setTransactionManager(txManager);
+            aspect.setBeanFactory(beanFactory);
+        }
+        return bean;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Object postProcessAfterInitialization(Object bean, String beanName) throws BeansException
+    {
+        return bean;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void setBeanFactory(BeanFactory beanFactory) throws BeansException
+    {
+        this.beanFactory = beanFactory;
+    }
+
+    public void setTransactionManager(PlatformTransactionManager txManager)
+    {
+        this.txManager = txManager;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/modules/dcache/src/main/resources/META-INF/aop.xml b/modules/dcache/src/main/resources/META-INF/aop.xml
index c03559ebe99..868fa0472fd 100644
--- a/modules/dcache/src/main/resources/META-INF/aop.xml
+++ b/modules/dcache/src/main/resources/META-INF/aop.xml
@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@
 <aspectj>
     <weaver>
         <include within="org.dcache.pinmanager.*"/>
+        <include within="org.dcache.util.aspects.*"/>
     </weaver>
 
     <aspects>
-        <aspect name="org.springframework.transaction.aspectj.AnnotationTransactionAspect"/>
+        <exclude within="org.springframework.transaction.aspectj.AnnotationTransactionAspect"/>
+        <aspect name="org.dcache.util.aspects.PerInstanceAnnotationTransactionAspect"/>
     </aspects>
 </aspectj>
diff --git a/modules/dcache/src/main/resources/org/dcache/pinmanager/pinmanager.xml b/modules/dcache/src/main/resources/org/dcache/pinmanager/pinmanager.xml
index df06e0b3e40..f2274f8566f 100644
--- a/modules/dcache/src/main/resources/org/dcache/pinmanager/pinmanager.xml
+++ b/modules/dcache/src/main/resources/org/dcache/pinmanager/pinmanager.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-       xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
        xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
        xsi:schemaLocation="
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
-           http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">
 
     <context:annotation-config/>
@@ -191,5 +189,7 @@
     <property name="persistenceManagerFactory" ref="pmf-proxy"/>
   </bean>
 
-  <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="tx-manager" mode="aspectj"/>
+  <bean class="org.dcache.util.aspects.PerInstanceAnnotationTransactionBeanPostProcessor">
+      <property name="transactionManager" ref="tx-manager"/>
+  </bean>
 </beans>
diff --git a/modules/srm-server/src/main/aspect/org/dcache/srm/aspects/EofExceptionAspect.aj b/modules/srm-server/src/main/aspect/org/dcache/srm/aspects/EofExceptionAspect.aj
index d369c283ed1..1f29efc4f00 100644
--- a/modules/srm-server/src/main/aspect/org/dcache/srm/aspects/EofExceptionAspect.aj
+++ b/modules/srm-server/src/main/aspect/org/dcache/srm/aspects/EofExceptionAspect.aj
@@ -1,3 +1,20 @@
+/* dCache - http://www.dcache.org/
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2014 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
+ *
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
+ * License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
 package org.dcache.srm.aspects;
 
 import java.io.EOFException;
diff --git a/packages/pom.xml b/packages/pom.xml
index 66dbaf9f955..930c39f99a4 100644
--- a/packages/pom.xml
+++ b/packages/pom.xml
@@ -149,10 +149,10 @@
         <scope>runtime</scope>
     </dependency>
 
-    <!-- Dependencies of a WAR artifact are not automatically
-         included, so we have to repeat them here. There is a plugin
-         (org.appfuse:maven-warpath-plugin) to solve
-         that (REVISIT). -->
+      <!-- Dependencies of a WAR artifact are not automatically
+           included, so we have to repeat them here. There is a plugin
+           (org.appfuse:maven-warpath-plugin) to solve
+           that (REVISIT). -->
     <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.wicket</groupId>
         <artifactId>wicket-core</artifactId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b1bdeb8bb6b..2c8a1e7c168 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -895,6 +895,12 @@
                         <source>${source.version}</source>
                         <target>${target.version}</target>
                         <complianceLevel>${source.version}</complianceLevel>
+                        <XhasMember>true</XhasMember>
+                        <sources>
+                            <source>
+                                <basedir>${project.basedir}/src/main/aspect</basedir>
+                            </source>
+                        </sources>
                     </configuration>
                     <executions>
                         <execution>