Autoboxing and Join Point matching in AspectJ 5

Most of the pointcut designators match based on signatures, and hence are unaffected by autoboxing. For example, a call to a method

   		public void foo(Integer i);
   		

is not matched by a pointcut call(void foo(int)) since the signature declares a single Integer parameter, not an int.

The args pointcut designator is affected by autoboxing since it matches based on the runtime type of the arguments. AspectJ 5 applies autoboxing and unboxing in determining argument matching. In other words, args(Integer) will match any join point at which there is a single argument of type Integer or of type int.

Autoboxing and unboxing are also applied when binding pointcut or advice parameters, for example:

   		pointcut foo(int i) : args(i);
   		
   		before(Integer i) : foo(i) {
   		  ...
   		}