Re: [aspectj-users] Invoking ajc from code

[Marc Hull <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cool - everything's running fine now, thanks for the help!

Best wishes,
Marc

Adrian Colyer wrote:

> Plugins and classpaths can be tricky. First thing I would check is that 
> aspectjrt.jar is both in the project's classpath (required for building), 
> and ALSO in the plugin.xml file as a required library - otherwise you get 
> the situation you describe where a plugin will build but not run.  It 
> should look something like this:
>
>   <library name="aspectjrt.jar">
>         <export name="*"/>
>    </library>
>
> If you DO have aspectjrt.jar library in the plugin file, the other thing 
> that sometimes causes trouble is the <export name="..."/> entries - make 
> sure you're exporting the aspectj packages if you do use these.
>
> -- Adrian
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> Hello,
> I'm writing an Eclipse plug-in that needs to compile some files using 
> ajc. Currently, I do this using Runtime.exec(..) to execute the ajc 
> executeable and pass it the files and other options as arguments, 
> however I was wondering if there's a better way of doing this, by 
> invoking the compiler directly from within my code?
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> I tried org.aspectj.tools.ajc.Main.main(..) and 
> org.aspectj.ajdt.ajc.AjdtCommand.runCommand(..) but both generate the 
> following error:
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> error can't find type org.aspectj.lang.JoinPoint
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> However, AspectJRT.jar is in my classpath - is this error appearing 
> because I'm trying to invoke the compiler from within Eclipse?
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> Is there any way to get rid of this error, or can you think of a better 
> way of achieving the same results?
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> Best wishes,
> Marc Hull
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