Re: [aspectj-users] AspectJ + AJDT + AspectJ Maven development versions

[Andy Clement <andrew.clement@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'll jump on the thread. Alexander has been doing some awesome (overdue) work here, particularly around making it easier to keep pace with Java - this has become even more urgent as the release cadence for Java has accelerated. I don't see aspectj.dev as some rogue location, it is Alexander working with me (well not really supported enough by me, but we are communicating!) to get AspectJ to a better place for the future.  I can see aspectj.dev replace repo.spring.io as the place for snapshot builds going forward. With releases going into central as usual.  Alexanders work means a Java 15/16 release is very close, when my plan was to just support them all at the next LTS (17).

thanks Alexander!

cheers,

Andy

On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 at 07:06, Matthew Adams <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Awesome.  I'm also a long-time AspectJ user and occasional supporter (I'm a former SpringSource consultant from way back 2007-2008 and founding co-committer of Spring Data Cassandra).

I've been working primarily in the Node.js space for the last 7+ years, but have been keeping a little bit of an eye on developments in the Java ecosystem.  Kotlin has really caught my eye, and, after having been spoiled in Java for so many years with AspectJ, I was hoping that I'd see first-class support for AOP in Kotlin via "AspectK" or something, since, by the time we ceased Java development, ajc was our only compiler, if you can believe it.

I know this is a lot to ask because I've felt Andy's been way underresourced over the years and have truly feared the day Andy decides to hang it up, but I'd really like to see a new compiler akc, similar to ajc, only for Kotlin.

Honestly, I don't understand why SpringSource/Pivotal/... doesn't allocate more resources to such a crucial and awesome technology as AspectJ.  Further, given Spring's substantial adoption of Kotlin, why more effort hasn't gone into a sister/twin effort for AOP in Kotlin (what I call "AspectK").

What will it take for AspectK to be recognized as necessary and resources allocated to it?

> On Apr 28, 2021, at 2:43 AM, Alexander Kriegisch <alexander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello AspectJ users community!
>
> You might know me as a fellow user who over the years asked or answered
> questions, raised bugs or commented here. I also answer questions about
> AspectJ and Spring AOP on StackOverflow, in order to unburden Andy
> Clement as a maintainer from user support a little bit.
>
> Somewhat new is my role as an active contributor to the code bases of
>  ** AspectJ,
>  ** AJDT (AspectJ Development Tools) for Eclipse IDE,
>  ** AspectJ Maven Plugin.
>
> It all started with reading source code because I did not understand
> something or wanted to know how to fix a tiny issue, then baby step by
> step it somehow escalated into adding Java 15+16 support to AspectJ,
> Java 13-16 support to AspectJ Maven and making AJDT work with the new
> AspectJ version in its belly on Eclipse IDE 4.19 (2021-03). All of this
> stuff is available for you to test, feedback is welcome. As I do not
> have commit and deploy rights on Eclipse projects (yet), I just set up a
> little Maven repository on my domain aspectj.dev.
>
> More details in this comment I posted on a recently merged GitHub pull
> request:
>
> https://github.com/eclipse/org.aspectj/pull/41#issuecomment-826066012
>
> Best regards
> --
> Alexander Kriegisch
> https://scrum-master.de
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