Re: [aspectj-users] AspectJ <--> AspectWerkz translator

[Alexandre Vasseur <avasseur@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew,

Could you detail a bit your use cases ? That s sounds very interesting.
Is that a one way AW->@AJ
or are you looking for a two-way @AJ<->AJ translation (that could f.e.
be part of AJDT at some stage)
(I am not sure a two way AW<->@AJ/AJ makes much sense)

Alex

On 7/13/05, Andrew Eisenberg <ade@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> I'm looking for a tool that can translate between one syntax and the other on the fly (as long as it's syntactically correct).  It's for a proof of concept tool that allows a programmer to view and edit a different (and presumably better) representation of the code than actually exists in the file.
> 
> I pretty much have the  AW->AJ part working.  That's easy.  The only non-trivial part of the translation is the @Mixin annotation.  It's the other way around that's more tricky.  I'm pretty sure that I can hack out something that works most of the time, but it'll be extremely difficult to get something that's perfect.
> 
> 
> thanks,
> --a
> 
> > Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 09:20:52 +0200
> > From: Alexandre Vasseur <avasseur@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: [aspectj-users] AspectJ <--> AspectWerkz translator
> > To: aspectj-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
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> >
> > Hi Andrew
> >
> > Good point indeed.
> >
> > I don't think we as the core team will ship that but there are a
> > number of things in the pipe:
> > - translating from AW to AJ will be straightforward for annotation
> > defined aspects, a bit more complex for xml defined aspects. I plan to
> > write a how-to about that soon (*)
> > - translating from AJ to AW does not makes much sense. Do you have a use > case ?
> > - translating from AJ code style to AJ 5 @AspectJ style back and forth
> > makes sense and is a good way to see where code style features could
> > not be mirrored to annotation style whilst preserving a "aspect and
> > advised types can be compiled with regular javac" property.
> > AJDT may provide a flip view that does that, and as @AspectJ becomes
> > available we will also write about it much more (*)
> >
> > (*) : So why nothing to read about that yet ? Because @AspectJ ie
> > annotation style aspects will be available in AspectJ 5 M3, that will
> > ship soon. I want to base my writings on a milestones backed by some
> > AJDT build, and not only talk or write about what is on the cvs or in
> > nightly builds.
> >
> > Have you already given a try to such a translation yourself ? What did
> > you spotted ?
> >
> > Alex
> 
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