Re: [ajdt-dev] Hello community

[Andrew Eisenberg <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Marcelo,

Welcome.  Glad that you are looking to contribute something.

Refactoring support for AJDT is something that has been asked about
for a long time.  Recently, we have been able to provide most Java
refactorings for Aspect files, but there is still corner cases that do
not work.

What is not supported at all, but would be welcome is refactoring
support for aspect elements themselves.  There is a lot of literature
on this subject and it can be fairly complicated, so it is not a good
place to start.

However, a good place to start might be bug 265039.  This is to add
better UI support for visualizing crosscutting relationships when
there are many related elements (eg- tracing or FFDC advice).

Take a look at that bug, and comment on what you think about it.
Depending on your comfort level with JDT and SWT, you can implement
simpler version of a suggested idea, or propose something different.

To get started take a look at the Developer's FAQ:
http://www.eclipse.org/ajdt/developers.php

Since AJDT has been changing rapidly lately, some of the FAQ may be
out of date.  Please post to this mailing list if you have any
troubles.

--a

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Marcelo Dias <maruero@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> This is my first message to this email list.
> I started working with aspectj 1 year ago. My experience is refactoring OO
> Software Product Lines into AO SPL's.
> So, I have been used the AJDT plug-in a lot. So, why not to start to
> contribute to this project.
>
> I'm still taking a look at the source code. But I hope to be contributing
> soon. I have some starting questions.
>
> I read the 'work task' page, and I discover that already has a lot of good
> ideas about supporting refactoring with AJDT.
> And I would like to contribute to work on it. But would like to start
> working slowly, first getting familiarity with the code and after really
> contribute with those projects.
> So, how can I starting? What piece of the AJDT is better to starting
> learnig?
>
> Another question, I didn't see any AJDT's idea into the 'eclipse foundation
> ideas' to the Google summer of code. Don't you think to subscribe any idea
> to the Google SoC 2009?
>
> Have a nice end of weekend! :-)
>
> Marcelo
>
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