AspectWerkz 0.10 RC2 has been released.

You can download it from here

This release is mainly a bug-fix release, but we have added some new functionality (and changed some APIs) as well:

• Aspects does not have to extend the Aspect base class anymore, but can be any Java class and extend anything they like.


• The JoinPoint class has these two methods:
  • getSignature() - which is used to retrieve the static signature for the join point.
  • getRtti() - which is used to retrieve the RTTI (Runtime Type Information) about the join point.
  Both these methods returns a base interface that could be used, but is usually best to cast to a more fine-grained and specific type.


• Retrieval of information about the system, adding and reading of parameters and metadata etc. is done through the CrossCuttingInfo class. An aspect or mixin that is interested in accessing this info should have a constructor that takes a CrossCuttingInfo instance as its only parameter. See the docs for details.


• Pluggable aspect container - The possibility to provide your own aspect container implementation is back. Useful if you need to control how your aspects are instantiated for example if you want that to be handled by an IoC container (Spring, PicoContainer etc.))

Enjoy.