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Re: [aspectj-users] Re: [aspectj-dev] AspectJ 5 Milestone build 1 now available
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> 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.
Yes, let's use aspectj-dev for discussion of AspectJ 5 language features -
I think that way they will get more visibility than if we just use
bugzilla.
Cheers, A.
-- Adrian
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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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