0.8.5M1 Release Notes

If you are updgrading from a version earlier then:

• 0.8.5x: Make sure to alter all your existing aspects and connectors since four keywords have changed for compliance with AspectJ’s terminology. See below.
• 0.8.x: you have to redo the install procedure as outlined by the installation instructions. The classpath has changed.
• 0.7.4: the HotSwap 2 startup command is Modified for compliance with Java 1.5 final! See here for the new command.

Latest public build detailed information: Click here. See also for known limitations and bugs of current version.

• replace → around
• execute → execution
• calledmethod → thisJoinPoint
• calledobject → thisJoinPointObject

• Strict vs non-strict stateful aspects

//makes sure no intermeidate transitions between t1 and t2 are allowed. Intermediate transitions that are not in the context pointcut are allowed though
TestHook(m1(..args),m2(..args),context(..args)) {
    strict[execution(context)]:
    t1: execution(m1)>t2;
    t2: execution(m2);
}

• Empty context for strict and complement stateful aspects supported

//makes sure no intermeidate transitions between t1 and t2 are allowed. 
TestHook(m1(..args),m2(..args),context(..args)) {
    strict:
    t1: execution(m1)>t2;
    t2: execution(m2);
}

• Jumping Stateful Aspects when combined with run-time weaver (optional)

• Introduced around throwing advice that allows NOT to rethrow the captured exception

around throwing(IOException ex) {
     Log.log(ex);
     if(shouldRethrow)
        throw ex; //exception is rethrown
     else return null; //exception is captured and not thrown further (not possible with after throwing)
}

• Introduced around returning advice that allows altering the return value

//this example only works when compiling using: target:1.5 flag; Use wrapper classes (Integer) with 1.4
around returning(int price) {
     return price*discountPercentage;
}

• Hook polymorphism supported in connectors
• Subtype pattern matching supported in connector,

logging.TestHook test = new logging.TTestHook(* Serializable.*+(*)); //matches all methods on classes that implement the Serializable interface.

• Finish rebuild of optimized run-time weaver, for benchmarks see AWBench.

• Moved to Javassist 3
• Ported testing framework to JUnit