Re: [aspectj-users] aspectJ, Ant and bigger projects

[Simon Heinzle <simon.heinzle@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Andrew,

I resolved that issue by weaving into the generated JAR files, as every 
of our projects produces such JAR files.
(simply a <jar> task followed by a <iajc> task)

But thanks anyway,
Regards Simon.





Andrew Clement wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> You can build with javac then binary weave with iajc, no problem.
> If you don't specify the debug option for the javac step then it
> simply means that any weaving info messages you ask for during the
> iajc step will be missing exact source locations.
>
> If you were to use iajc standalone, it does offer an incremental
> compilation mode, but it requires the ant task to run
> continuously.
>
> A while ago I wrote up a mechanism for how to put the two
> javac/iajc tasks together such that the iajc step only executed
> if the javac step had recompiled anything - but I can't for the
> life of me find where I wrote it down - it was either in a post
> on the list or in a bug report (Wes, can you remember? I think you
> may have said it was a nice strategy and put it into the docs
> somewhere?)  It basically revolved around the iajc task running
> conditionally on a property being set and that property was
> set based upon whether javac did anything.  However, this still
> means the iajc step was doing a binary weave of everything (but
> this is still faster than a full source compile of everything).
>
> I know there are other users exercising ANT on large projects -
> hopefully they can comment on how they have it set up??
>
> cheers,
> Andy.
>
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> First of all thanks Alex for answering my last question.
>
> I just got another one: I'm trying to incorporate AspectJ in a bigger
> project -- the project is currently compiled using Ant and Sun javac.
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> What do you suggest: build everything to jar files using javac, and
> weave in the aspects afterwards? (does this technique work, if javac
> without debugging information is used?)
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> Or would you do it all with the iajc ant task? (If so, what would you
> suggest to prevent recompilation of everything if Aspect Files haven't
> changed? How do you prevent recompilation of everything if only a few
> (Java only) files have changed?
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> Thanks a lot,
> Simon
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