With the suprise final release of AspectJ 5 the other day, I put some extra effort in resolving some of my issues mentioned in my previous post. First of all, the updated AJDT plugin is a true gem. This plugin far exceeds the JBoss AOP plugin which is part of the JBoss IDE suite. The [...]

Mohan Radhakrishnan has posted a great article called Writing Mixins using AspectJ. The article outlines a way to add PropertyChangeSupport to a POJO using AspectJ 5. It’s very similar to the JavaBean Aspect (Now known as the “ValueBean Aspect”) I posted a while back. This is really great because I have been trying to figureout [...]

Seems a few folks don’t get what my previous post about the Swing Style Aspect was all about, so I decied to answer a few of the comments in a post. First and foremost, this is merely a proof-of-concept and means of playing with AOP. Second, aspects provide another way of doing things and the [...]

I thought I’d hate it when Flock was first announced. It sounded like just another wannabe, “web 2.0″, AJAX-enabled piece of hype. Much to my surprise, it’s pretty damn good. For an early developer preview anyway. It comes with a handy blog editor which I’m using to write this post, which is much nicer than [...]