Spring AOP - why do i need aspectjweaver?

i wrote a very simple Aspect with Spring AOP. It works, but i have some problems understanding what is really going on. I don't understand why i have to add the aspectjweaver.jar? The Spring-AOP documentation clearly states that i don't need aspectj compiler or weaver as long as i just use Spring-AOP:

The AOP runtime is still pure Spring AOP though, and there is no dependency on the AspectJ compiler or weaver.

My configuration looks like this:

<aop:aspectj-autoproxy />

@Aspect
@Service
public class RemoteInvocationAspect {

    @Before("execution(* at.test.mypackage.*.*(..))")
    public void test() {
        System.out.println("test");
    }
    ...

I also tried XML configuration, didn't change anything though. Maybe i could just let it go, but i really would like to understand why aspectj-weaver is used? If i don't add the dependency in maven i get java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.aspectj.weaver.reflect.ReflectionWorld$ReflectionWorldException