Re: [Mockobjects-java-dev] AOP : Aspect Oriented Programming

[Vincent M. <vm...@oc...>]

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From: "Steve Freeman" <st...@m3...>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Mockobjects-java-dev] AOP : Aspect Oriented Programming


> From: "Vincent Massol" <vm...@oc...>
> > I don't know what covariance and contravariance are but after reading
their
> > introduction paper, I really want to try it. I may even try it on Cactus
> > real soon to see how it goes. There is even an Ant task to help for the
> > build (not that it changes much). Also, if you read their paper, you'll
find
> > a screenshot of their IDE extension. They have plugins for JBuilder 4/5
and
> > Netbeans.
> >
> > The concept is great. It seems very easy and great for unit
> > testing/debugging. For other things, it looks a bit more complex but
> > probably simply requires training.
>
> of course, the real problem is that it changes the code under test, so
it's not totally reliable for that.

why do you say that ? That's the beauty of it, it doesn't change the code at
all ... I'll post an example soon ..
-Vincent