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From: "Are Meisfjord" <are@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: aspectj-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, Aug-10-2004 5:56 AM
Subject: Re: [aspectj-users] Newbie question on inter-type member
declarations
Hi, Wes,
Thanks a lot for your answer and your suggestions! I have a couple
of follow-up questions though, if you don't mind.
[Wes]
Your case is classic generative programming, of applying a rule to create
code. AspectJ if anything is moving away from that.
As mentioned before I'm new to AOP, and that's probably
why this statement puzzles me a little. Because I thought AspectJ was
exactly that: applying rules (pointcuts) to generate code
(advice)...?
A pointcut is a predicate that can pick out
a join point. Advice runs at a join point, but
is written by the programmer.
Similarly for inter-type declarations. The main difference
between
aspects and classes is that aspects also
support crosscutting. Some crosscutting can be
implemented through generating code, but
that's not how we do it (any more).
[Wes]
ITMD's since AspectJ 1.1 have their type resolved at compile-time, mainly
to support incremental weaving.
Sounds like a good idea to do as much as possible at compile-time. But I
can't see why the ITMD types can't be resolved at compile time in my
case?
Syntactically, since 1.1 they take a type
rather than a type pattern, and what you suggested
was more like a type pattern in that it
would match many types.
[Wes]
We thought that it would be better to strongly separate generative
programming from AspectJ than to continue or expand support for it.
Do you (or anybody else) know if there are any generative
programming tools available with IDE integration (preferably
Eclipse)? (Btw, I really like the Eclipse integration of AspectJ! I
just tried setting a breakpoint inside an advice, which worked smoothly.
Nice!)
I agree with Adrian's suggestion to check
out JET, but haven't myself verified that AJDT
plays nicely with JET. I suspect that
the JET-generated classes should be in another
project and included as binaries using
-inpath.
Best regards,
Are Meisfjord
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