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

[Ramnivas Laddad <ramnivas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow! Indeed an early Christmas present!

BTW, what is the preferred way for providing feedback? I think 
discussing on aspectj-dev will work best, with 
summaries/conclusions/decisions posted to bugzilla.

-Ramnivas

Lesiecki Nicholas wrote:

> 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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