AJDT: AspectJ Development Tools

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Some aspects of system implementation, such as logging, error handling, standards enforcement and feature variations are notoriously difficult to implement in a modular way. The result is that code is tangled across a system and leads to quality, productivity and maintenance problems. Aspect Oriented Software Development enables the clean modularization of these crosscutting concerns. The AspectJ Development Tools (AJDT) project provides Eclipse platform based tool support for AOSD with AspectJ. Our goal is to deliver a user experience that is consistent with the Java Development Tools (JDT) when working with AspectJ projects and resources.

News and Releases

  • AJDT 2.2.2 is now available.
    posted 02-22-13
  • AJDT 2.2.1 is now available.
    posted 09-21-12
  • AJDT configurator for m2e v1.0 is now available at http://dist.springsource.org/release/AJDT/configurator/. Add this update site to your Eclipse install manager to install the configurator. This configurator will ensure that Maven projects in Eclipse are properly configured with AspectJ and AJDT.
    posted 09-30-11

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The AspectJ compiler is developed by the Eclipse AspectJ project based on original research conducted at PARC.