As part of the AspectJ 5 effort between the AspectWerkz and AspectJ teams, we are inviting you to reply to a web based survey about the use you do of AOP, especially in Java.

This survey will help us to prioritize and to organize our milestones according to the community needs and requirements. The survey consists of 20 questions with answer choice, so it should require around 5 minutes to go through.

Take the survey now: http://aspectwerkz.codehaus.org/survey.html And pass it on!

AspectWerkz 2.0.RC3 is out.
This is likely to be the 2.0 final, so get it now and try it.

The feature changes and fixes are:

• cflowbelow() is supported


• staticinitialization() pointcut (contributed by Alexandru Popescu / Mindstorm)


• patterns can be only annotation defined like within(@Foo), execution(@Tx) etc (contributed by Alexandru Popescu / Mindstorm)


• new -keepjp option in offline mode to keep internal statically compiled structure and speed up deployment time

• Aspects.aspectOf() fixed to support aspect reuse


• Advisable API fixed for call side pointcut

Read the release notes.
Get it now.

In the coming weeks, we will publish documents to help you getting started with the AspectJ 5 development snapshot, so that you can start thinking about future migration, as well as come with feedback as regards features you would like to have in.