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The AspectJ^TM 5 Development Kit Developer’s Notebook

by the AspectJ Team

Copyright (c) 2004, 2005 Contributors. All rights reserved.

This guide describes the changes to the AspectJ language in AspectJ 5. These include support for Java 5 features, support for an annotation-based development style for aspects and new reflection and tools APIs. If you are new to AspectJ, we recommend you start by reading the programming guide.

Table of Contents

• Join Point Signatures

• Annotations

• Generics

• Autoboxing and Unboxing

• Covariance

• Varargs

• Enumerated Types

• The pertypewithin Aspect Instantiation Model

• An Annotation Based Development Style

• New Reflection Interfaces

• Other Changes in AspectJ 5

• Load-Time Weaving

• A Grammar for the AspectJ 5 Language