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Re: [aspectj-dev] Introducing JDT Weaving 
Hi Eric!


That sounds like great news. I quickly looked at the description of
these Equinox aspects and I wonder how all this now works on the
technical side of the weaver.
Equinox Aspects is an extension to the Equinox runtime that allows you to use AspectJ LTW within an OSGi environment. Basically it calls the existing AspectJ weaver functionality from the classloading of OSGi, deals with the dynamics of OSGi and takes care of which aspects to weave into which bundles.
Just like OSGi gives each bundle a classloader, Equinox Aspects gives each bundle a weaver and feeds it with the appropriate food. 


Does AJDT now always weave at load time using Equinox or does Equinox
also support something like static weaving?
Equinox Aspects supports only load-time weaving, but implements a caching mechanism for woven bytecode. The actual weaving occurs only once as long as you don't change your configuration. 

Cheers,
-Martin





Eric

2008/12/3 Andrew Eisenberg <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Hi all,

We would like to introduce the latest developments for AJDT.  We will
be release some exciting new features including Java searches that
include Aspects elements, ITD aware content assist and type
hierarchies.

We are asking the AspectJ and AJDT community to please try this new
version out and report any bugs on this list or on bugzilla.  The
update site is here:
http://download.eclipse.org/tools/ajdt/34/dev/weaving

This is a pre-release of AJDT 1.6.2 and therefore requires Eclipse
3.4.x.  AJDT 1.6.2 will be release towards the end of this month.

In order to implement this we were left with no choice but to apply
AspectJ to the Eclipse framework itself.  We created the JDT Weaving
plugin that uses uses Equinox Aspects [1] to do the cross-plugin
weaving.

For more information on how to use and install see the Eclipse Wiki:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/JDT_weaving_features

As always we appreciate all feedback from the community.

sincerely,
The AJDT team


[1] http://www.eclipse.org/equinox/incubator/aspects/index.php
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