We're excited to announce a significant development for AspectWerkz, AspectJ, and the world of aspect-oriented programming.

The AspectJ and AspectWerkz projects have agreed to work together as one team to produce a single aspect-oriented programming platform building on their complementary strengths and expertise. The first release from this collaboration will be AspectJ 5, which extends the AspectJ language to support an annotation-based development style in addition to the familiar AspectJ code-based style. AspectJ 5 will also provide full AOP support for the new Java 5 language features. It will continue to be developed as an open-source project on eclipse.org.

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