Monday, November 04, 2002
AspectJ 1.1alpha is out. It's more a sanity check of the Java compiler than a full AJ version (several missing features, like full 1.0 aj support). I'll be playing with it for a while, to give the guys some feedback. Looks like 1.1beta is the one to really wait for though - should be feature complete.
There's been loads of AOP chat around recently on the blog front, notably Rickard (1, 2, ...) and James (1) have all been pontificating. I'm still not entirely convinced by Rickard's AOP style interceptor framework -- but that may just be due to lack of info, will need to wait and see what it's like. Certainly one good point over AJ, is that it seems a bit more composable (like HyperJ) than AJ. You can get around this slightly by using abstract Aspects, but parameterised PCDs / reflective access would be nice in AJ. May have to wait for 1.2/2.0 for that though. Having run-time / load-time linking will make AJ much more useful I think. I'm planning on helping out with support for JBoss / Tomcat classloaders to provide automatic weaving for web-apps..
There's been loads of AOP chat around recently on the blog front, notably Rickard (1, 2, ...) and James (1) have all been pontificating. I'm still not entirely convinced by Rickard's AOP style interceptor framework -- but that may just be due to lack of info, will need to wait and see what it's like. Certainly one good point over AJ, is that it seems a bit more composable (like HyperJ) than AJ. You can get around this slightly by using abstract Aspects, but parameterised PCDs / reflective access would be nice in AJ. May have to wait for 1.2/2.0 for that though. Having run-time / load-time linking will make AJ much more useful I think. I'm planning on helping out with support for JBoss / Tomcat classloaders to provide automatic weaving for web-apps..
