Re: [aspectj-users] Problem compiling J2SE 5.0 source with ajc

[Russell Miles <russellmiles@xxxxxxx>]

Cheers Andy and Adrian, all clearer now and I'm back to having some fun again :) I don't envy you guys the job and I can fully understand how much work needs to be done. 

Thanks again,

Russ
 
On Tuesday, January 04, 2005, at 02:52PM, Adrian Colyer <adrian_colyer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>It may sound strange, but what you're doing wrong is trying to compile 
>this source with ajc!
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>The AspectJ 5 M1 release supports *binary* weaving only of Java 5 compiled 
>code. In other words, you need to compile your Java 5 classes with javac, 
>and then put them on the "inpath" of an ajc invocation. The Eclipse JDT 
>team released a full Java 5 compiler in their 3.1 M4 release just before 
>Christmas, so our next task is to pick that up and integrate it into 
>AspectJ for the M2 release (and then we *will* be able to support source 
>compilation). 
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>Regards, Adrian.
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>-- Adrian
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>Hi list,
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>A new year begins and I thought I'd have some fun putting the new J2SE 5.0 
>features of AspectJ through their paces. However, I've hit a snag on the 
>first attempt. I've got a dead simple class that uses the @Override 
>standard annotation to indicate/check that the toString() method is being 
>overridden properly. The class does nothing more apart from supplying a 
>main method that makes the call to toString() on a constructed object. All 
>works fine with javac but as soon as I try to use ajc I get:
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>Syntax error on tokens, delete these tokens
>@Override
>^^^^^
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>Ok, so this seems like something dumb that I've not done correctly on the 
>ajc command line so I checked out the help and added the -1.5 to the ajc 
>command line just in case ... to no avail. I even rooted through the 
>generated ajc script to see if there was anything odd but with no luck. 
>Can someone give me a push in the right direction as to what I'm doing 
>wrong?
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>Cheers,
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>Russ
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