Description Andrew Clement 2009-02-16 12:29:32 EST

With the work done to split matching and weaving, we can build a JDTWorld that will enable matching without compilation.  Preliminary work has started but it has uncovered that we are sorely lacking reusable pointcut test suites for the world, particular that use Java5 features (generics/annotations in pointcuts).

Due to the sheer scale of the issue we need to create a roadmap for this:

1. Complete coverage of execution() pointcuts (Spring IDE wishes to exploit the JDTWorld)
2. Create a JDTTypeWalker that can walk a JDT element and create all the join points that occur within any given piece of code (initially just create execution join points)
3. Wire these two together and build the higher level API
4. Expand into further pointcuts (testcases and in JDTTypeWalker), first without Java5
5. Expand into further pointcuts (testcases and in JDTTypeWalker), with Java5

Note that in terms of actual new code to write, the only code that will be included in distributions is the JDTWorld and JDTTypeWalker - there is probably not much to do within the pointcut classes themselves, we know they work fine - it is just the tests that need writing so we can verify the behaviour across new World implementations rather than only with a BcelWorld.