[aspectj-users] Re: [aspectj-dev] AspectJ 5 Milestone build 1 now availa

[Lesiecki Nicholas <ndlesiecki@xxxxxxxxx>]

Let me be the first to say:

Congratulations!

and

Thank you!

I can't wait to try it.

Nick
--- Adrian Colyer <adrian_colyer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm pleased to announce an early christmas present for AspectJ users -
> the 
> first milestone build of AspectJ 5 is now available.
> 
> You can download it from:
> * http://download.eclipse.org/technology/ajdt/aspectj-1.5.0M1.jar
> 
> or the mirror at:
> * http://www.aspectprogrammer.org/dist/aspectj-1.5.0M1.jar
> 
> See the README linked from the AspectJ home page 
> (http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj) for an overview of this release, or the 
> AspectJ 5 Developer's Notebook (also linked) for full details of the 
> language and tools changes. This release provides support for binary 
> weaving of Java 5 classes generated by a Java 5 (javac) compiler.
> 
> Some of you may recall we set out a plan to deliver Java 5 support in 
> AspectJ in three phases (see below). We're actually a little ahead of 
> plan, because the M1 release also contains full support for pointcut 
> matching with annotations. For example:
> 
>   before() : call(@RestrictedAccess * org.xyz..*.(..)) {
>       //...
>   }
> 
>  In addition to matching annotations with the existing pointcut 
> designators, we also support several new annotation-matching designators.
> 
> Please try it out and let us know what you think. We reserve the right to
> 
> continue revising the language definition between milestone releases
> based 
> on user feedback, and will stabilize with the release of the first
> AspectJ 
> 5 release candidate.
> 
> Thanks to Ramnivas Laddad, Ron Bodkin, and the ABC team for their input 
> into the AspectJ 5 language design.
> -- The AspectJ Team
> 
> 
> Outline Plan for AspectJ 5:
> 
> > The first major milestone (1.5.0M1) simply ensures that AspectJ's
> weaver 
> 
> > does the right thing when confronted with Java 5 class files (ie. no 
> > extended pointcut syntax etc., but does understand covariance, varargs,
> 
> > bridge methods, enums, etc.). I'd like to reach this point by Christmas
> 
> > (or before, depending on the order we decide to attack things in). 
> > 
> > The second major milestone (1.5.0M2) extends the pointcut matching to 
> > support generics and annotations in pointcut expressions. We can do
> this 
> 
> > ahead of the full JDT support being available as this function is 
> > implemented in our weaver. With M2, you will be able to compile Java 5 
> > sources using the Java 5 compiler, and then (binary) weave them with 
> > AspectJ, taking full advantage of Java 5 features in join point 
> matching. 
> > This will give an equivalent level of Java 5 support to the other
> aspect 
> 
> > approaches out there right now. I'd like to reach this point by the end
> 
> of 
> > January.
> > 
> > The third major milestone will be 1.5.0rc1, with the full source-level 
> > support for Java 5 features. I'd like to reach this point by the end of
> 
> > March.
> 
> 
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