Re: [Webwork-user] Why I like WebWork

[Roger H. <ro...@fl...>]

Hi Rickard

>WATKIN-JONES,ADAM (HP-UnitedKingdom,ex1) wrote:
>> I'm delurking to ask what is surely a daft question but here goes:  if not
>> AspectJ, then what AOP toolkit are you using?
>>
>> (Obvious answer: having super programming-chops, you've written an AOP kit
>> yourself!  In which case, is this something you may put into the public
>> domain!?)
>
>The obvious answer is quite correct. Whether or not it will be
>opensourced is something that is yet to be determined. We've thought
>about it. The core of it is really generic, and entirely based on
>reflection/dynamic proxies. With JDK1.4 the overhead for that is so
>small that it's rather ok to apply it just about everywhere. And boy oh
>boy does it rock :-) It's so cool to have an object implement 10
>interfaces but not have a single class implement more than 1... it's
>what code reuse ought to be like.
>
>/Rickard

I'm also delurking since this is such a tempting topic!

When you posted your message last year titled:

        '[Meinds-developers] Aspect oriented framework, first go'

at:

        http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/15432/2001/11/0/7186838/

I downloaded the code from:

        http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/meinds/aspects.zip?download

and spent several days playing.  I just kept reading, and reading, and smiling ;)  It
was hugely instructive - many, many thanks for this gift.

So here we are, 6 months later, and you mention your AOP Toolkit -
> The core of it is really generic, and entirely based on reflection/dynamic proxies.
Needless to say, I'm now just full of curiosity!

Has the Toolkit progressed since the 'first go' ? And if so how?
It was so simple in its initial conception, that almost any change would imply a
conceptual adjustment? etc. etc. ??????????????

I for one, would love to see the current version being opensourced!

Roger