Re: [equinox-dev] Equinox aspects: Several problems for Load-Time-Weavin

["Andrew Eisenberg" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have an update site for equinox aspects here:
http://download.eclipse.org/tools/ajdt/34/dev/equinox-aspects

You can try to install from there.  The installation will
automatically update your config.ini for you.  Should work, but you
need to have AspectJ pre-installed.

If Martin's suggestions don't work for you, you can try installing
from the update site.

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Martin Lippert <lippert@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Jens!
>
> I am sure we can get your setting to work well with equinox aspects.
> Firstofall, I see that you are using an old version of equinox aspects. You
> should definitely download and use M3 of equinox aspects, this is much more
> stable, especially in the case of dynamics.
>
> Your config.ini looks good, I would just add a start level of 4 to the
> o.e.e.weaving.aspectj bundle. You definitely don't need to start your system
> with the osgi.clean option=true. The latest versions of equinox aspects work
> with and without cleaning the configuration area.
>
> If you would like to use dynamics for aspects, the best way to go is to
> install and uninstall aspect bundles. Every time an aspect bundle is
> installed and got resolved, the aspect is woven into the system, including a
> refresh of already running bundles. Telling you that you need to know that
> some Eclipse bundles do not behave well within an dynamic environment. For
> example refreshing swt or the workbench at runtime does not work. So if you
> would like to dynamically install and uninstall aspects you should take care
> that the effected bundles behave nicely within a dynamic environment.
>
> HTH,
> -Martin
>
>
> Jens Goldhammer wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have downloaded the equinox aspectj extension and integrated into
>> eclipse
>> how it is mentioned in the user guide.
>> The hello world aspectj example works great for me. I can dynamically
>> start
>> and stop the aspectj service and the classes seam to be reloading at
>> run-time.
>>
>> I have zipped the folders org.aspectj.runtime_1.6.1.20080703120000 and
>> org.aspectj.weaver_1.6.1.20080703120000 (project
>> org.eclipse.equinox.weaving.demo.target) from the example to two jar files
>> and copied it to the eclipse plugins directory. I reloaded the target
>> platform, so the plugins are considered.
>> After playing with some examples, I tried to integrate aspects into our
>> eclipse product which is based on 3.4.1. I have created a config.ini
>> (modified the prebaked config.ini of eclipse export mechanism) which looks
>> like this one:
>>
>> # default start level for the bundles
>> osgi.bundles.defaultStartLevel=4
>>
>> osgi.bundles=org.eclipse.equinox.common@2\:start,
>> org.eclipse.update.configurator@3\:start, org.eclipse.core.runtime@start,
>> org.eclipse.equinox.weaving.aspectj@start,
>> org.eclipse.equinox.weaving.caching.j9@start,
>> org.eclipse.equinox.weaving.caching@2\:start, com.ibm.icu, [our bundles],
>>
>> org.apache.log4j,org.aspectj.runtime,org.aspectj.weaver,org.eclipse.core.commands,org.eclipse.core.contenttype,org.eclipse.core.databinding,org.eclipse.core.expressions,org.eclipse.core.jobs,org.eclipse.core.runtime.compatibility.auth,org.eclipse.equinox.app,org.eclipse.equinox.event,org.eclipse.equinox.preferences,org.eclipse.equinox.registry,org.eclipse.equinox.weaving.aspectj,org.eclipse.equinox.weaving.caching,org.eclipse.equinox.weaving.caching.j9,org.eclipse.equinox.weaving.hook,org.eclipse.help,org.eclipse.jface,org.eclipse.jface.databinding,org.eclipse.osgi.services,org.eclipse.swt,org.eclipse.swt.win32.win32.x86,org.eclipse.ui,org.eclipse.ui.workbench,org.junit,org.eclipse.equinox.launcher,org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86
>>
>> #osgi.configuration.cascaded=false
>> osgi.clean=true
>>
>> # AOSGi
>> osgi.framework.extensions=org.eclipse.equinox.weaving.hook
>> aj.weaving.verbose=true
>> org.aspectj.weaver.showWeaveInfo=true
>> org.aspectj.osgi.debug=true
>>
>> After configuring it there are two problems:
>>
>> 1. If I start the product configuration via eclipse, I can see following
>> in
>> the osgi console after running ss:
>> 4 <<LAZY>>    org.eclipse.equinox.weaving.aspectj_1.0.0.200808061839
>> 5 <<LAZY>>    org.eclipse.equinox.weaving.caching.j9_1.0.0.200808061839
>>
>> The two bundles for aspectj are not active after starting the osgi
>> platform.
>> I don´t know why! Something prevents loading the aspectj bundles. My
>> presumption is that the required bundles
>> org.aspectj.runtime_1.6.1.20080703120000.jar and
>> org.aspectj.weaver_1.6.1.20080703120000.jar are loaded to late from the
>> org.eclipse.update.configurator which loads all bundles from the plugins
>> directory. Or anyboday think there is another problem?
>>
>> After starting the two bundles manually with start [bundle-ids], my trace
>> aspect which traces method calls is working for this session. But how I
>> can
>> deactivate it during runtime? I made a stop for the bundle 4
>> (org.eclipse.equinox.weaving.aspectj_1.0.0.200808061839) and the main
>> Activator of our application will be stopped!!! I thought I can
>> dynamically
>> start and stop the aspect bundle?
>>
>> Another approach was to stop the bundle with the compiled aspect inside.
>> But
>> it does not work, too. The tracing still is working. I think, the aspect
>> is
>> cached... Can I prevent this?
>>
>> 2. I made a shutdown of the ogsi plattform and there are two different
>> situations.
>>
>> 2.1 If I restart the product WITHOUT the parameter osgi.clean=true, the
>> needed bundles are started:
>>
>> 4 ACTIVE      org.eclipse.equinox.weaving.aspectj_1.0.0.200808061839
>> 5 ACTIVE      org.eclipse.equinox.weaving.caching.j9_1.0.0.200808061839
>> 6 ACTIVE      org.eclipse.equinox.weaving.caching_1.0.0.200808061839
>>
>> My bundle with the aspect is also active. But I get severeal messages on
>> console which are like this one: "Info no configuration found. Disabling
>> weaver for bundler [...]".
>> I think, the aspect in one of my bundles cannot be found. At all, the
>> trace
>> aspect does not work!
>>
>> 2.2 If I restart the product WITH the parameter osgi.clean=true, I have
>> the
>> same situation as mentioned under point 1! The required bundles are not
>> loaded...
>>
>> What does it mean to me? I have always to start the osgi platform with
>> osgi.clean=true, so in this case I cannot have the advantage of osgi
>> caching. At all, we cannot rely on the equinox aspects. Maybe somebody can
>> help me to fix the problem.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jens Goldhammer
>> fme AG
>
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