The latest snapshot of AspectWerkz is now supporting IBM JDKs for on the fly weaving.

IBM bundles an entire JRE (1.3 or 1.4) with its WSDK and WepSphere platform, which you are forced to use with IBM software.

Due to specific classloading scheme, we delayed the support for it and users had to use offline mode (class post compilation) to use AspectWerkz with WebSphere.

With the latest version, we have brought AspectWerkz a step further in AOP that now allow online mode to work with IBM custom JDK / JRE.

This change could only be achieved starting with the 0.8 released around august 2003, wich has brought the totaly new online architecture that allows to seamless hook AspectWerkz weaver in the JVM.

Tests have been made with

• IBM WSDK 5.0.1 on a win32 (Java 1.3.1)
• IBM JRE 1.3.1 on a linux 2.4

If you are a WebSphere or IBM fan, please help us and give a try to AspectWerkz online mode by your own. We need your feedback to make it more mature.