JAsCoDT for Eclipse

The JAsCo Eclipse plugin allows easy development of JAsCo enabled applications using the Eclipse IDE. Eclipse is an open, extensible and cross-platform IDE. For more information about Eclipse, see the Eclipse website.

• Compiling aspect beans, connectors and regular Java classes.
• Makes sure that normal Java files are always transformed to JAsCo beans so that aspects are able to be triggered on them.
• Visual wizards for both aspects and connectors.
• Allows to find out which joinpoints match a certain hook instantiation.
• Running and debugging JAsCo projects.

• Windows 2000/XP or Linux
• JDK 1.4+ (JDK1.5 recommended)
• Eclipse 2.1 or Eclipse 3.0 (3.0 recommended)

The development tools for JAsCo are installed using the Eclipse update manager.

1. Install the plugin by employing the built-in update manager for the following url: http://ssel.vub.ac.be/jasco/update/. Select the correct JAsCo version depending on your Eclipse version (2.1 or 3.0), if you don’t know which Eclipse version you have see Help→About. If you don’t know how to use the update manager, click here for a detailed explanation.
2. Set the tools.jar file in the window→preferences→JAsCo tab. For more information about this, see the online help: Help → Help Contents → JAsCo Plugin Help.

Important Upgrade Information: If you are upgrading from an earlier version of the Eclipse plugin, existing projects will still have the old JAsCo runtime libraries. Solution: Either make a new JAsCo project and move all contents to that one or manually alter the jasco.jar and jasco-libs.jar project libraries. Both are located in eclipse/plugins/<jasco-latest>/libs.

A manual for configuring and using the JAsCo Eclipse Plugin is integrated in the plugin itself from version 1.2.2 onwards. Go to: Help → Help Contents → JAsCo Plugin Help.

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A simple visual application which execution is logged using a JAsCo aspect bean.

Intructions:

• Download the project here.
• Create a new JAsCo project in Eclipse.
• Import the example into the new project using File→Import.
• Add the juggler.jar library (contained in the zip file) to the new project using Project→Properties→Java Build Path→Add External Jar
• Create a new JAsCo runner and use RunJuggler as main class.
• Launch the application!

This application runs two visitors on a sample data structure. Combination strategies are also employed. See the JAsCo language reference for more information about Adaptive Programming and traversal connectors.

Intructions:

• Download the project here.
• Create a new JAsCo project in Eclipse.
• Import the example into the new project using File→Import→Zip File.
• Create a new JAsCo runner and use RunTraversal as main class.
• Launch the application!