Description Eric Jain 2003-10-01 04:49:12 EDT

When adding default implementations to an existing interface, the AspectJ 
compiler seems to modify the interface itself, rather than only modifying 
classes that were declared to implement this interface with something 
like 'declare parents: A implements X'. When viewed with Eclipse's class file 
viewer, all methods have the following data attached:

  Attribute: Name: Synthetic Length: 0

Both Eclipse and plain javac would then complain if I used any of these 
methods, as if they were made invisible. I have no idea what is going on here, 
but one workaround I found is to simply not advise the original interface, but 
create a second, hidden interface that extends the original interface, and 
advise that instead. Does this really have to be this way?