ADDITIONAL SYSTEM INFORMATION :
MacOS 10.14.4
openjdk-12 $ java -version
openjdk version "12" 2019-03-19
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 12+33)

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
I build and deployed my application using JDK 12 GA and was getting the following errors at runtime:

"Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: error the @annotation pointcut expression is only supported at Java 5 compliance level or above"

despite compiling my application with "source" and "target" of 12 and running Tomcat with Java 12.

After upgrading to Java 12.0.1, I confirmed that the problem went away but I can't find any record of a relevant fix. Mostly I'm trying to confirm there was indeed a problem in the JDK that has since been fixed vs some problem in my configuration or deployment

STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
I just build my project which happens to include Spring-based pointcut expressions.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
It should run appropriately since both my compiling JDK and my runtime JDK are both 12.
ACTUAL -
I get the error above on startup of my application when initializing a Spring bean

Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: error the @annotation pointcut expression is only supported at Java 5 compliance level or above

CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
Upgrade to 12.0.1

FREQUENCY : always