Re: Re: Re: [aspectj-users] [ANN] Contract4J5 v0.6.0 released

["Dean Wampler" <deanwampler@xxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, there's no reason not to reuse "@Pre" and "@Post" for this purpose.
dean

On 9/23/06, Dean Wampler <deanwampler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Very interesting idea. I'll put it on my list for the next release. I
> could see general-purpose @PreMethod and @PostMethod annotations that
> are applied to all methods in the class, with options to control
> whether or not they apply to just public methods, etc. You wouldn't
> even need to specify a test expression, if all you want are null
> checks, since those are the default expressions already for @Pre and
> @Post.
>
> I'm also planning to remove the restriction that you can't define
> tests for static methods. This seems pointless. The new annotations
> could be configurable to apply to statics, too, if desired.
>
> dean
>
> On 9/23/06, Wim Deblauwe <wim.deblauwe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > very nice tool. Is it possible to avoid putting @Pre before every method and
> > just have a class annotation that says: all public methods should not accept
> > null or return null until I explicitly say so? I understand that Contract4j
> > is more powerful, but I believe for most programmers null checking is most
> > important without getting much overhead.
> >
> > Seems like Howard Lewis Ship has something like that already:
> > http://howardlewisship.com/blog/2006/04/gambling-on-aspectj.html
> >
> >  regards,
> >
> > Wim
> >
> > 2006/9/23, Dean Wampler <dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > > I'm pleased to announce v0.6.0 of Contract4J5, an open-source, Design by
> > > Contract tool for Java 5, using Java 5 annotations and AspectJ.
> > >
> > > This release restructures Contract4J5 to provide more flexible
> > > configuration options (including the option of using Spring dependency
> > > injection) and support for load-time weaving, which is the easiest way
> > > to adopt C4J.
> > >
> > > For more information, see http://www.contract4J.org and
> > >
> > http://blog.aspectprogramming.com/articles/2006/09/21/contract4j5-v0-6-0-is-now-available.
> > >
> > > Dean
> > >
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