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April 07, 2005

AspectJ 5 M2 released today

We released AspectJ 5 M2 today ( download)

The changes in AspectJ 5 M2 since M1 are numerous, and the highlights are listed below.

  • Full source compilation of Java 5 programs (with the "-1.5" option)
  • New Xlint warning when advice does not affect any join points (and the @SuppressAjWarnings annotation to suppress it) (-1.5 only)
  • @this,@target,@args forms changed from @this(@Foo) to @this(Foo)
  • Full support for annotation binding as context in @this, @target, @args, @annotation, @within, @withincode
  • Declare annotation (declare @field, declare @method, declare @constructor, declare @type)
  • Declare soft does not soften runtime exceptions
  • pertypewithin instantiation model
  • performance improvements resulting in reduced compilation times
  • aspectpath has been extended to accomodate directories as well as jar/zip files
  • many, many bug fixes

The AspectJ 5 Developer's Notebook has been updated to reflect the updates. So many people have contributed ideas, suggestions, and bug reports to M2 that it's impossible to list you all - but you know who you are, so thank you. Come 1.5.0 final we'll put together a roll-of-honor :)

For examples of some of the new features in action check out some of the entries in this blog:

and also the AspectJ 5 Developer's Notebook.

Posted by adrian at April 7, 2005 08:43 PM [permalink]

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