Re: [aspectj-dev] AspectJ 1.7.0.M1 released

[Andy Clement <andrew.clement@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Neale,

The actual refactoring work to pull out the matching code into its own
module, and the build system for it, was done a while ago.  In your
install directory for AspectJ you can see an org.aspectj.matcher.jar
(800k).  This *should* be the component needed.  But I haven't done
extensive testing of it with Spring AOP (to confirm it contains
everything necessary).  So all that may be required is publishing that
into maven alongside the other jars and trying it out as the sole
dependency.  If you raise a bugzilla I'll publish it and we could take
it from there.

cheers,
Andy

On 5 January 2012 05:37, Neale Upstone <neale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Andy.
>
> Is there any chance that the matching parts of weaver could be split
> into a separate item as part of this release? (i.e. the bits used for
> @AspectJ stuff in Spring where used with Spring AOP - but not aspectj).
>
> It would be a plus for SpringSource given the number of enterprise
> projects that use AOP but not AspectJ.
>
> Benefits for the end user include:
> - less (download the internet) effect when pulling down dependencies
> from Maven central
> - built WARs are smaller for deployment (a benefit to CloudFoundry too),
> and for storage by enterprise build servers
> - built apps for mobile devices are smaller
> - marginally quicker deploy/startup times
>
> For Spring and AJ devs:
> - Cleaner separation
> - More likelihood of patches against the matcher
>
> And I'm sure there are others :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neale
>
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011, at 10:14 AM, Andy Clement wrote:
>> AspectJ 1.7.0.M1 has been released - this is AspectJ rebased on the
>> Eclipse 3.7 Java7 compiler. AspectJ was previously based on Eclipse
>> 3.3 so this new version merges in 4 years of changes/updates to the
>> Eclipse compiler.  You can now compile Java7 source with AspectJ and
>> even use Java7 syntax in your aspects. The readme includes some
>> examples of doing this:
>> http://eclipse.org/aspectj/doc/released/README-170.html
>>
>> The download is here:
>> http://eclipse.org/aspectj/downloads.php
>>
>> or accessible via maven:
>> <repository>
>>     <id>maven.springframework.org</id>
>>     <name>SpringSource milestones</name>
>>     <url>http://maven.springframework.org/milestone</url>
>> </repository>
>>
>> If you try it and have any issues please let us know (on the list or
>> through bugzilla).  There is still more work to be done on
>> invokedynamic support and the interplay between some AspectJ elements
>> and Java7 language features (e.g. handler and multi-catch).
>>
>> As you may have seen there is already an AJDT for Eclipse 3.7 that
>> includes this compiler, update site is here:
>> http://download.eclipse.org/tools/ajdt/37/dev/update/
>>
>> Happy Holidays!
>> AspectJ Team
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