[aspectj-users] WebSphere LTW Agent Submitted as Contribution

["Ron Bodkin" <rbodkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

Ramnivas and I are working on an interesting project applying AspectJ to do
fine-grained security in a WebSphere 6.0 environment We wanted to use
load-time weaving to let us build modules separately in the RAD IDE and then
weave at load-time and to mock the EJB container behavior for integration
tests. However, WebSphere 6.0 uses IBM's Java 1.4 VM that doesn't support
any Java agents for weaving.

However, I was able to track down the details of the WebSphere ClassLoader
Plug In API (the hard part) and write a simple Plug In that lets you do
load-time weaving in AspectJ 5 for application classes in a WebSphere
project using the embedded Java 1.4 VM (for older WebSphere implementations,
this should also work on their Java 1.3 VM's). You can download the jar and
also read about how to use it in more detail at the AspectJ bugzilla report
in which I contributed it (see
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=111027).

Thanks,
Ron

Ron Bodkin
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