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Re: [aspectj-users] Post-compile Weaving Vs Load-time Weaving
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LTW can also be beneficial if you want to weave into code that you
don't own and perhaps don't even know which jar it resides in.
F.e. weave into all subtypes of JDBC's PreparedStatement. You might
not know which JDBC driver will be used at deployment time. If you use
LTW, this won't be any problem but when the right class is loaded then
it is woven transparently.
/Jonas
On 11/8/06, Matthew Webster <matthew_webster@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Virender,
I would add another item to Adrian's list:
* you don't own or control the aspects you are using and want to allow them and your application to evolve independently without the need to rebuild and redeploy your application. In some ways a woven application becomes a blob a bit like an (old fashioned) .exe file. If an aspect changes it may no longer be binary compatible with your application or may rely on new cross-cutting behaviour that was not implemented when originally woven. Yes you will need to retest the application but not rebuild it. You may like to look at the Aspects Equinox Incubator (http://www.eclipse.org/equinox/incubator/aspects/getting_started.php211) where we are looking at this whole issue by exploiting OSGi dependencies and versioning.
As well as being a little old (pre-AspectJ5) the article you refer to is perhaps not the best guide to choosing LTW over another weaving phase in that it is making the case for built-in JVM aspect weaving. I support this effort in the long run but even if implemented in the JVM aspect weaving will still incur an overhead both in footprint and pathlength. You must therefore select LTW for the same reason you choose late binding and even JIT compilation in Java: flexibility and portability.
Matthew Webster
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Subject Re: [aspectj-users] Post-compile Weaving Vs Load-time Weaving
In general you build an application once, and run it many times. Load-time weaving means you pay the cost of weaving every time your application launches. If you do post-compile time weaving as part of your build process, then there will be no overhead at runtime and your application will start faster and use less memory. So I would always opt for post-compile time weaving unless:
* you need the flexibility of changing the set of aspects you are using from run to run
* you are using the aspects for temporary instrumentation (e.g. using Glassbox) - this is really a special case of the above
* you just want to try things out quickly and don't want the hassle of changing your build process
Load-time weaving can also sometimes be beneficial in speeding up certain development scenarios. In general however, why do at runtime what you could easily have done ahead of time...
Regards, Adrian.
On 8 Nov 2006, at 10:00, virendersingh@xxxxxxx.in218 wrote:
Hi,
I was analysing whether one should go for Post-compile weaving or Load-time weaving. I read on the bea site (http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2005/08/jvm_aop_1.html219) that Load-time weaving (using agents) affects both scalability and usability. Are these issues of scalability and usability applicable to post-compile weaving as well?
Any help on the technical advantage of one over another would be highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Virender Singh,
Consulting and Architecture Team,
HSBC GLT, Pune , India
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