Fw: [Springframework-developer] Revised AOP API proposal

[Rod J. <rod...@in...>]

Forwarded on behalf of Bob...



renaud wrote:

>certain join points and values at those points. Advice defines code that is
>executed when a pointcut is reached. These are, then, the dynamic parts of
>AspectJ.
></AspectJDoc>
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>By reading this, you can really think that the advice and the pointcut are
>orthogonal and defined independently. Indeed, it seems not flexible at all
>to define at the same place the code to be executed and where it is
>executed.
>
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I think it means that advice maps code to pointcuts.

>To me it is confusing. Moreover, lots of work on AOP have pointed out the
>benefits of having independent structures for the both. To me AspectJ
misses
>something here: the ability to define independent (unlocated) advice -- 
like
>an interceptor does.
>
>
You can map to an abstract pointcut.

I think Advice is the correct term here.

Thanks,
Bob