You can reach other AspectJ users by using the aspectj-users mailing list. You can subscribe to the list or view the list archives from the AspectJ home page http://eclipse.org/aspectj .

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AspectJ(tm) is a simple and practical extension to the Java(tm) programming language that adds to Java aspect-oriented programming (AOP) capabilities. AOP allows developers to reap the benefits of modularity for concerns that cut across the natural units of modularity. In object-oriented programs like Java, the natural unit of modularity is the class. In AspectJ, aspects modularize concerns that affect more than one class.

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AspectJ 1.1 through 1.5.1 source code and documentation is available under the Common Public License 1.0. The AspectJ 1.0 tools are open-source software available under the Mozilla Public License 1.1. That documentation is available under a separate license that precludes for-profit or commercial redistribution. Most users only want to use AspectJ to build programs they distribute. There are no restrictions here.

AspectJ is based on over ten years of research at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center as funded by Xerox, a U.S. Government grant (NISTATP), and a DARPA contract. It has evolved through open-source releases to a strong user community and now operates as an open source project at http://eclipse.org/aspectj The AspectJ team works closely with the community to ensure AspectJ continues to evolve as an effective aspect-oriented programming language and tool set. The latest release is 1.

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The code for these concerns tends to be spread out across the system. Because these concerns won't stay inside of any one module boundary, we say that they crosscut the system's modularity. AspectJ adds constructs to Java that enable the modular implementation of crosscutting concerns. This ability is particularly valuable because crosscutting concerns tend to be both complex and poorly localized, making them hard to deal with.

From AspectJ's web page , download the AspectJ distribution. The jar file is installed by executing java -jar jar file name Do not try to extract the jar file contents and then attempt to execute java org.aspectj.tools.Main. (A NoClassDefFoundError exception will be thrown.) The AspectJ distribution is not designed to be installed this way. Use the java -jar form shown above. To uninstall, remove the files the installer wrote in your file system.

Many users adopt AspectJ in stages, first using it to understand and validate their systems (relying on it only in development) and then using it to implement crosscutting concerns in production systems. AspectJ has been designed to make each step discrete and beneficial. In the development process Use AspectJ to trace or log interesting information. You can do this by adding simple AspectJ code that performs logging or tracing.

The AspectJ compiler or weaver is required at some point, but many people can use AspectJ without changing their build or deployment process significantly. For aspects that are not required to compile, you can use the AspectJ binary weaver, run at build-time or class-load-time. You can write aspects using the original code style (which must be compiled with the AspectJ compiler) or using the annotation style new in AspectJ 5 (which may be compiled with Javac or the AspectJ compiler).

Just include the aspectjrt.jar as a required archive. For example, here is the HTML code for an HTML editor applet that contains some debugging aspects: <APPLET CODE='com.company.swing.applets.EditorApplet' WIDTH='700' HEIGHT='525'> <PARAM NAME="CODE" VALUE="com.company.swing.applets.EditorApplet" > <PARAM NAME="ARCHIVE" VALUE ="../company-applets.jar,../aspectjrt.jar,../xmlrpc-applet.jar" > <PARAM NAME="type" VALUE="application/x-java-applet;version=1.

Below is a table describing the goals for the major releases. For information about specific features, search the bug database for RFE's ("requests for enhancement") by selecting severity of "enhancement". Like many open-source projects, we don't make or promise schedules, but we do follow a pattern of issuing preview releases which can give observers an idea of when a particular release might be available.

The AspectJ tools run on any Java 2 Platform compatible platform. The AspectJ compiler produces classes that run on any Java 1.1 (or later) compatible platform.

But at this time, unfortunately not. The two compilers are just not at all compatible. In an ideal world, there would be a wonderful Open Source extensible compiler framework for Java that both GJ and AspectJ would be built on top of, and they would seamlessly interoperate along with all other extensions to Java that you might be interested in, but that's not the case (yet?).

AspectJ has come a long way -- the language has stabilized; there are a rapidly growing number of commercial users; the 1.1 release is imminent and will include byte-code weaving and incremental compilation; and the tool support is now well integrated with several major IDEs. This growth of the community and the technology means that the original research and prototype development of AspectJ is complete. As such it is time for ongoing development and support of AspectJ to move outside of PARC.

No. The AspectJ tools download is completely self-contained and does not require that you work in Eclipse. For information on IDE support, see Q: How well does AspectJ integrate with existing Java development tools?.

All the new features are documented in the AspectJ 5 Developer's Notebook and the AspectJ Development Environment Guide. To summarize: Java 5 support: as an extension to Java, AspectJ supports all the new language features of Java 5, including generics (parameterized types), autoboxing, covariant return types, enhanced for-loops, enums, varargs, and of course annotations.

For those who want to contribute to the project, here's a general list of ways to do so, in no particular order: Participate effectively in the mailing lists. The quality of the mailing lists makes a huge difference in the ability of new and experienced AspectJ users to write good code. For guidance on effective participation, see Q:How do I communicate with other AspectJ users? and Q:How should I write email queries?.

AspectJ 1.0 source code is available in an archive available with the 1.0 downloads. It contains instructions for building from sources. AspectJ 1.1+ source code is available through CVS using the CVS Root dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/tools. For more information on accessing the CVS tree at eclipse.org, see the documentation from http://eclipse.org. Find specific instructions in the AspectJ tree at org.aspectj/modules/build/readme-build-and-test-aspectj.html.

To build AspectJ, first get the source tree as described in Q:How do I get and compile the source code for AspectJ?. Once you have a development environment set up, copy the build/sample-local.properties file to build/local.properties and within this file point the java14.home and java15.home to the corresponding places on your machine. Navigate to the build directory within your AspectJ workspace (to find out where your workspace is go to File > Switch Workspace within Eclipse).

The best compiler bug report is a reproducible test case, standalone code that demonstrates the problem. Sometimes with aspects, a test case requires several files, if not some way to capture the behavior. Here's how we recommend submitting test cases: Write the test case so that when the compiler bug is fixed, the test completes normally without output (e.g., expected compiler errors are issued, or classes produced run correctly). This usually means writing one or more source files.