The AspectJ^TM Programming Guide

by the AspectJ Team

Copyright (c) 1998-2001 Xerox Corporation, 2002 Palo Alto Research Center, Incorporated, 2003-2005 Contributors. All rights reserved.

This programming guide describes the AspectJ language. A companion guide describes the tools which are part of the AspectJ development environment.

• If you are completely new to AspectJ, please read the getting started chapter for a broad overview of AspectJ programming.

• If you are already familiar with AspectJ, but want a deeper understanding, you can learn more about the AspectJ language and look at the examples in the chapter.

• If you want a more formal definition of AspectJ, please refer to the language semantics section.

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Getting Started with AspectJ

• The AspectJ Language

• Examples

• Idioms

• Pitfalls

• AspectJ Quick Reference

• Language Semantics

• Implementation Notes