Re: [aspectj-users] List of main users

[Jan Willem <lm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adrian Colyer wrote:
> so if you've got AspectJ working in combination with another tool,
> server etc.. it would be great if you could post about that too.

I wrote a persisting aspect for J2EE for my masters thesis.  It picks up 
all calls to persisting methods of Entity Beans, and does the persisting 
for the Entity Beans.  This persisting method makes a good replacement 
for CMP:  it has all the advantages of BMP, but one has to write the 
code only once.  I wrote the persistence aspect with AspectJ and tested 
with a test case (a small library application) written in J2EE.  The 
application was then deployed on the J2EE reference implementation of 
Sun (1.3.1) with Cloudscape DBMS (4.0.6) and on JBoss AS (4.0.0DR3) with 
Hypersonic (1.7.1).

Conclusions were that, in the short term, using aop it is possible to 
implement all crosscutting behavior in a J2EE server.  In the long term 
J2EE will probably be replaced by aop, with a basic framework delivering 
non crosscutting services.