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Re: [aspectj-users] Conditional Compilation and AspectJ 
Hi,
That was just a simple example of course, perhaps in more complex aspects with more advice I may just want to turn off a single advice.
I'm more thinking of using the aspects in a product line context where the ability to generalise the aspect would be really useful.
Of course you get some results using abstract aspects, but that isn't quite as flexible as it might be. 

Cheers
Neil
----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Webster" <matthew_webster@xxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [aspectj-users] Conditional Compilation and AspectJ







Neil,

More importantly your classes have not been woven with the advice reducing
overall code size and eliminating pathlength. If no advice is being called
at all then don't include the aspect with your application thereby removing 
all overhead.

Matthew Webster
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Java Technology Centre, MP146
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"neil loughran" <n.loughran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>@eclipse.org on 25/11/2004
23:05:28

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Hi all,

One of the features missing from the java language is a pre-processor to
handle conditional compilation.  Many people will point out that this was
only really needed in C++ to handle different platforms and that its
possible to imitate #ifdef kind of constructs using static variables, which 
is how the guys at Philips reduce their preprocessing directives for their
Koala component technology.

ie.

private final static boolean DEBUG = true;

..

       if(DEBUG)
       {
       ... some functionality
       }

whereby setting DEBUG  as a static variable would cause the compiler to
include the code or not.
I've been wondering if it is possible to do the same thing in AspectJ on
advice, whereby the compiler would know that the branches could not be
reached so would not include them.

I put together a simple aspect as shown below

aspect X

{
   private final static boolean CHECK = false;

   pointcut something() : call (public void SomeClass.printMsg(String));
   pointcut check() : if(CHECK);

   before() :something() && check()
   {
       //.. some functionality
   }
}

but found after checking the bytecode that the compiler converted the
advice into a method even though it would never get executed.

Is there a reason for this?

Cheers
Neil




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