[aspectj-dev] Running code once in an aspect

["Rob Austin" <austirob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

 

I'm afraid I have a beginners question. I was wondering if it is possible to place code in an aspect that is only executed once.

For instance, I am writing an aspect which will monitor a method in another class. The aspect itself needs to instantiate an object that will do this.

Naturally I will use a singleton pattern to get a reference to this object, but this still seems inefficient, as the aspect will be called each time the method is called meaning a conditional statement is called in the Singleton each time.

 

I feel like I'm going the wrong way about this. Any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

Rob