Re: [aspectj-dev] Introducing JDT Weaving

["Andrew Eisenberg" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Whereas caching is supported by Equinox Aspects, AJDT currently does
not take advantage of it.  We've found that the LTW does not
contribute significantly to startup times.  However, it is our
intention to use this in the future.

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Eric Bodden <eric.bodden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Does AJDT now always weave at load time using Equinox or does Equinox
> also support something like static weaving?
>
> 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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