the aspectj news archives

December 14th 2005, AspectJ 5 RC1 released
AspectJ 5 release candidate 1 was released today. It contains many bug fixes and enhancments since the M5 release. You can see the complete list of resolved issues since M5 on bugzilla. AspectJ 5 RC1 is available for download from the downloads page.
November 16th 2005, AspectJ 5 M5 released
The AspectJ 5 milestone 5 build was released today. It contains a large number of bug fixes and enhancements since M4. We are no longer adding new features to AspectJ and are concentrating on fixing bugs before creating our first Release Candidate. You can see the complete list of resolved issues since M4 on bugzilla. AspectJ 5 M5 is available for download from the downloads page. You can see the list of remaining bugs to fix before 1.5.0 is finished here.
October 7th 2005, AspectJ 5 M4 released
The AspectJ 5 milestone 4 build was released today. It contains a large number of bug fixes and enhancements since M3, including the new reflection and weaver tools APIs. You can see the complete list of resolved issues since M3 on bugzilla. AspectJ 5 M4 is available for download from the downloads page.
August 25th, 2005, AspectJ 5 M3 released
At long last, AspectJ 5 M3 is here. This release has full Java 5 compilation support, language extensions for generics, enhanced load-time weaving, and the first official support for the @AspectJ development style. Now it's full speed ahead to M4 and then AspectJ 5 final. You can download AspectJ 5 M3 from the downloads page.
July 2005, Call for papers issued for 5th International Conference on AOSD
AOSD.06 March 20-24: Bonn, Germany The AOSD.06 conference is now soliciting contributions. A great chance for AspectJ users to meet up and share what they are doing. Submit your experience report abstracts by September 23rd.
April 12, 2005, aUnit 0.1 released
Russ Miles has made available the 0.1 release of aUnit, a unit testing framework for aspects. The 0.1 release includes a full working test framework with a set of examples in the source download to show you how to create tests.
April 7, 2005 AspectJ 5 M2 build now available
The second milestone build of AspectJ 5 is now available, with full support for compiling Java 5 language features and annotation matching and binding. See the README for more details, or go straight to the AspectJ 5 Developer's Notebook for a detailed description of the new language features.
January 17th, 2005 - AspectJ 5 development builds now support full Java 5 source compilation
The AspectJ 5 development builds as of 17th January now include full support for source compilation of Java 5 programs.
December 10th, 2004 - AspectJ 5 M1 (milestone 1) build now available.
The first milestone build of AspectJ 5 is now available, with support for binary weaving of Java 5 classes. This build supports annotations, enums, varargs, autoboxing, covariance, and detection of bridge methods. See the README for more details, or go straight to the AspectJ 5 Developer's Notebook for a detailed description of the new language features.
November 9th, 2004 - "Easy Install" AspectJ and AJDT distributions available.
Russ Miles has packaged together integrated installers for Eclipse, AJDT, and AspectJ on the Windows and Mac platforms. So now you can install a fully-configured AspectJ development environment in one single step. Also look out for his forthcoming book, the AspectJ Cookbook.
November 5th, 2004 - AspectJ 1.2.1 released
(Download) (Mirror). AspectJ 1.2.1 was released today. See the README for an overview of the release, or for detailed information you can refer to this list of changes and bug fixes.
October 22nd, 2004 - AspectJ 1.2.1rc1 released
(Download) (Mirror). AspectJ 1.2.1 release candidate 1 was released today. See the README for an overview of the release, or for detailed information you can refer to this list of changes and bug fixes.
July 29, 2004 - AspectJ website launched for the Hispanic community.
See http://www.programemos.com.
May 25, 2004 - AspectJ 1.2 released. (Download).
See the 1.2 README for an overview of the release.
April 21, 2004 - A new book on AspectJ has been published
Introduction to Aspect-Oriented Programming with AspectJ by Yoshihide Nagase, Masahiro Amano, Hironori Washizaki, and Michiaki Tatsubori (280 pages, Japanese).
March 27, 2004
Proceedings of the AOSD 2004 conference are available.
March 2004 - IBM's interest in AOP
is reported in Java Developer's Journal, The ServerSide at AOSD 2004, and news.com.
March 17, 2004 - AspectJ 1.1 gets a Software Development Magazine Jolt Productivity award
in the Language and Development Environments category.
June 9, 2003 - AspectJ wins the JavaWorld Editors' Choice Award
for "Most Innovative Java Product or Technology"